Monte Ozarka
04-04-2004, 17:28
Previously... (ooc: from previous thread)
As national defense is a major responsibility of the government, Parliament has passed legislation authorizing me to further encourage weapons development. Let it be known that the Monte Ozarkan government has set up secret, highly-guarded facilities in which highly sensitive research, especially that of nuclear weapons capabilities, is being undergone. We hope that this action in coming out into the open will breed a sense of trust. Our nation is devoted to a cause against aggressive war and the use of WMD's in any situation, but only by the procurement of such weapons can our country much greater safeguard against such an attack upon it. Thus, do not be alarmed. No WMD research will be sold or exported to any country. Recent developments will be kept track of and updated.
--WILHELM VON NIEMANN, Baron of Kaligny, Minister of Defense for the Archduke Philip IV of the Grand Duchy of Monte Ozarka
...Two years later...
JOINT PRESS RELEASE TO THE PUBLIC
MINISTRY OF DEFENSE
MINISTRY OF ENERGY
GRAND DUCHY OF MONTE OZARKA
The government is proud to announce that its nuclear weapons research and development program has brought real results.
One week ago, Monte Ozarkan scientists and military personnel successfully remote detonated a nuclear device on the uninhabited Roersted Island. This nuclear blast marked the first by the country of the Grand Duchy of Monte Ozarka. The blast measured 56 kilotons and stripped the island bare of all vegetation.
Roersted Island is a tiny island of 3 square miles approximately 500 miles off of the coast of the mainland of the GDMO. The area of the mainland closest to Roersted is a desolate stretch of deserts and salt marshes east of Roersted. The nearest land mass to Roersted is the small uninhabited archipelago, the Ingold Islands, 270 miles south of Roersted. Wind speeds were minimal, and nuclear debris was scattered up to 31 miles west, 52 miles south, 34 miles east, and 19 miles north of Roersted. Decontamination crews are currently engaged in cleaning up the island and the surrouding environment.
As national defense is a major responsibility of the government, Parliament has passed legislation authorizing me to further encourage weapons development. Let it be known that the Monte Ozarkan government has set up secret, highly-guarded facilities in which highly sensitive research, especially that of nuclear weapons capabilities, is being undergone. We hope that this action in coming out into the open will breed a sense of trust. Our nation is devoted to a cause against aggressive war and the use of WMD's in any situation, but only by the procurement of such weapons can our country much greater safeguard against such an attack upon it. Thus, do not be alarmed. No WMD research will be sold or exported to any country. Recent developments will be kept track of and updated.
--WILHELM VON NIEMANN, Baron of Kaligny, Minister of Defense for the Archduke Philip IV of the Grand Duchy of Monte Ozarka
...Two years later...
JOINT PRESS RELEASE TO THE PUBLIC
MINISTRY OF DEFENSE
MINISTRY OF ENERGY
GRAND DUCHY OF MONTE OZARKA
The government is proud to announce that its nuclear weapons research and development program has brought real results.
One week ago, Monte Ozarkan scientists and military personnel successfully remote detonated a nuclear device on the uninhabited Roersted Island. This nuclear blast marked the first by the country of the Grand Duchy of Monte Ozarka. The blast measured 56 kilotons and stripped the island bare of all vegetation.
Roersted Island is a tiny island of 3 square miles approximately 500 miles off of the coast of the mainland of the GDMO. The area of the mainland closest to Roersted is a desolate stretch of deserts and salt marshes east of Roersted. The nearest land mass to Roersted is the small uninhabited archipelago, the Ingold Islands, 270 miles south of Roersted. Wind speeds were minimal, and nuclear debris was scattered up to 31 miles west, 52 miles south, 34 miles east, and 19 miles north of Roersted. Decontamination crews are currently engaged in cleaning up the island and the surrouding environment.