Nuclear weapons

Nuclear weapons have made their way into Cyber Nations. They are quite expensive at $100,000 and with each active nuclear weapon in your posession the price of nukes increases by 50%. (Call this the law of supply and demand.) In addition to the initial cost, nuclear weapons also cost $200 a day to maintain.

As of 02/14/06 nations will require a tech level of 10 or greater and an infrastructure level of 100 or greater in order to begin purchasing nuclear weapons. A player can only purchase up to 2 nuclear weapons per day.

Nuclear weapons are extremely devastating to nations being attacked by them. Nuclear weapons completely reduce the number of defending soldiers for a defending nation to zero, cause great amounts of land and infrastructure losses (50% each), and also cause population happiness to plummet for a period of 5 days after a nuclear attack. For these reasons and because they are so expensive they serve as more of a war deterrent than anything else.