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Kanuckistan selling off large nuclear stockpile.


Faced with radioisotope decay causing an older stockpile of superclean tactical 'subnukes' to no longer meet strict fallout minimization standards, the Dominion of Kanuckistan has seen fit to sell the weapons off in an effort to recover replacment costs and avoid expensive desposal and/or reprocessing. With this in mind, the weapons, still amoung the cleanest nuclear fission-based ordinance avalible, have been refurbished, with an extended service life of an estimated +60 years without further servicing.

Presently, detonation of these warheads would result in an increase in background radiation 48 hours afterwards to levels roughly on par with what is experianced on a transatlantic flight, with all relivent fission byproduct radioisotopes having half-lives between 5 and 25 years; the deployment of troops and equipment into the area of the blast directly afterwards is unadvised but considered safe so long as standard NBC gear is used, and safe without the extra gear after 48 hours.

It should be noted that these are low yeild nukes; tactical and battlefield weapons in the kiloton range(the nukes droped on Japan iRL by the USA were ~15-20 kilotons, iirc). Also, there are warheads only; missiles or other delivery systems are not included. Manuals are included, however; areas containing scuttling charges to prevent reverse-engineering of key compnents are clearly labled as such on the included maintaince diagrams, and can be sent to Kanuckistan for servicing at cost should it become necessary.

Nations wishing to purchase the fissionible cores for desposal upon their own initive should make their intentions known, and the material will be removed and transported acording to proper safty guildlines; this insures there is no risk is accidently triggering a scuttling charge. Cost per unit remains the same for this service.



Restrictions:
-Nations must be atleast 1 RL month old
-Orders may not exceed one megaton(1000 kilotons) in combined warhead yeilds, per custumer(combined stockpile yeild is 16.125 megatons, BTW).


Delivery and Payment:
-Warheads will be shipped out to an armed facility on an island just within Kanuckistan's 1'000 kilometer terratorial waters limit, where they can be picked up. A StratoCarrier taskforce will provide security.
-Arming codes can either be turned over with the warheads, or for extra security, delivered via armed messagers.
-Payment will be made, in cash, upon delivery.




A total of 15'000 warheads are avalible, as specifyed below.

Yeild(in Kilotons/TNT).
-Cost per warhead(in USD).
-Number of warheads avalible.

0.1 kt
-$500'000 USD
-7'500 warheads

0.5 kt
-$2.5 million USD
-1'500 warheads

0.75 kt
-$3.75 million USD
-500 warheads

1.0 kt
-$5 million USD
-1000 warheads

1.5 kt
-$7.5 million USD
-500 warheads

2.5 kt
-$12.5 million USD
-3'000 warheads

5.0 kt
-$25 million USD
-1'000 warheads




It should be noted that all fissionible material sold is radioactivly taged, allowing us to identify individual warheads either pre or post detonation; as such, if these weapons are used against Kanuckistan, her allies, or used by terrorists, we will know to whom the weapon was sold and hold them accountible.



OOC: For the curious, there's no real meaning to the term 'subnuke'; Kanuckistan just uses the term to reffer to low yeild nuclear weapons with relativly little radioactive fallout. It emphasises the comparativly small explosive yeild, and generally won't generate the same kind of political backlash that the term 'nuke' would, atleast until used on a populated target.

I would ask thst you not sell any of these devices to Fascist White States. If he makes an offer I will pay double to prevent him from getting the devices. not to mention he is under 100 million.

There's already a one RL month nation age restriction; the nation you're concerned about apears to only be 8 days old, so I wouldn't worry for a while yet.

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To: Kanuckistan Diplomats
From: Vrak Diplomatic Corps
Subject: Purchasing nuclear warheads

We would need to know who your allies currently are. Please submit a list of your current allies. As well, we request that this list be inclusive only up to the present time of purchase and exclude any future allies on your part.

To: Vrak Diplomatic Corps
From: Office of the Exterrior, Kanuckistan
Subject: Re: Purchasing nuclear warheads

Our nation is only presently officaly allied with the Extra Solar Union of Systems.

The subsection reffering to allies as a whole was ment to discourage weapon resale, especially to those who may go out of their way target civilian populations, by making it known that these weapons can be traced to their original buyer(s), and that said buyer(s) may be held accountible if it's belived they were a willing party to the attack, just as one knowingly selling weapons to terrorists may be held accountible for the actions performed with those weapons if discovered.

As with the use of any and all methods of destruction, our nation's government will react as it sees fit to at the time; attacking or directly assisting in an attack upon a friendly nation will be viewed the same, regaurdless of the origin of the weapons.


>We would need to know who your allies currently are. Please submit a
>list of your current allies. As well, we request that this list be inclusive
>only up to the present time of purchase and exclude any future allies
>on your part.

To: Office of the Exterrior, Kanuckistan
From: Vrak Diplomatic Corps
Subject: Purchasing nuclear warheads

We will have to turn down your offer. While we doubt that we would come into conflict with any members of the Restored ESUS, we believe that purchasing your warheads will have an undue effect on our foreign policy.

You want to sell them, we would but them for research purposes only, as our stockpile is also quite large yield but also small in quantity. We will take all the 5 KT and 2.5KT off your hands for 50 Billion. As an ally, you know that we do not use Nulcear devices in conflict. There are special research projects that require devices of that size, we just do not have them that small. If you wish you can have an envoy monitor their use.

Indra Prime, the requested portion of the offered stockpile totals 12.5 megatons in combined yeild and would cost 62.5 billion; as stated above, there is a limit of one megaton's worth per custumer, and your requested order is far in excess of that.

0.1 kt
-$500'000 USD
-7'500 warheads

The nation of Kikoskriat would like to purchase 200 5.0 kt nukes for $5 billion USD. The money will be wired upon confirmation.

A await for you to confirm by order. :)

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Oshima would be interested in purchasing 200 5KT warheads; money will be transferred upon confirmation.

Oshima would be interested in purchasing 200 5KT warheads; money will be transferred upon confirmation.

We would like to know the price to purchase them all. We would not want these weapons to fall into wrong hands.

The Killer Soldiers: Your post specifys little, and regaurdless you are too young to purchase nukes from us at this time.

Kikoskriat: Order confirmed, please read the above detailed 'delivery and payment' section for information regaurding how you may take delivery of your order.

Oshima and Izu: Order confirmed, please read the above detailed 'delivery and payment' section for information regaurding how you may take delivery of your order.

Communist Louisiana: You can't purchase them all. Provisions detailed above restricting orders to one megaton combined yeild are in place to limit the number of weapons any individual party can purchase, partially to minimise damage should they fall into the 'wrong hands'.


OOC:
Alright, from now on anyone who actually bothers to read the entire opening post will get a free cookie with their order.

The Grand Duchy of Hamptonshire wishes to purchase all 1000 of the 1kt devices.

$5 billion will be made in cash upon delivery as requested.

We will send several large military cargo ships to pick up the devices, the entire 8th Fleet will be used as an escort force to ensure transportation safety.

We also ask that you remove the scuttling charge. We will be processing the fissionable material for use in civilian applications.

Thank you.

OOC: You do know your selling the end of the world right? Do you even know what the people your selling them to is going to do with them?

OOC: TBH, if he is keeping track of them, and, if he is only selling the relatively light yield weapons he claims to, then I'm not too worried. At least he is being reasonably realistic, which gives him a considerable advantage over every other nuke seller Ive seen.

One more thing, the correct (well, usual) terminology is 'micronuke' for anything less than a kiloton, and tac-nukes for anything larger up to a city-killer (about 50 kt). Although I do appreicate it is your own military nuclear jargon :D

Thank you. We are sent 2 Daedaleus class Dradnaughts and have picked up the warheads. We are now settinf off for home with a guard of 30 T-X Silvercloud unmanned bombers.

Thank you for selling us these warheads.

------------SOMETIME LATER-------------

LAter that week, the warheads, along with the escort, arrvied at Kikoskriat unharmed.

OOC:

The Freethinkers:
The term subnuke is perferred for primarily PR reasons. It doesn't sound as harsh, while serving to also convey the fallout-minimization; a relativly new subnuke leaves only a fraction of the fallout these warheads do.



IC:
Hamptonshire: the fissionible material can be removed and delivered in hardened hazmat shipping containers, as per provisions mentioned for those whishing to despose or recycle the radioisotope material; this should best meet your needs. Specifyed warheads have been reserved for now.


***Revised Inventory***


0.1 kt
-$500'000 USD
-7'500 warheads

0.5 kt
-$2.5 million USD
-1'500 warheads

0.75 kt
-$3.75 million USD
-500 warheads

1.0 kt
-$5 million USD
-***Sold Out***(1000 reserved for Hamptonshire)

1.5 kt
-$7.5 million USD
-500 warheads

2.5 kt
-$12.5 million USD
-3'000 warheads

5.0 kt
-$25 million USD
-600 warheads(200 reserved for Oshima and Izu)

The shogunate has deployed a pair of submarine transports to the island to collect the weapons, at which time your officers will receive the required $500 million...

(OOC: Payment in cash? Are you sure you wouldn't prefer bullion, or even flawless diamonds...)

The 8th Fleet and the Cargo ships are 10 hours from the pick up location. Once the containers have been received, the currency will be delivered.

Thank you.

The shogunate has deployed a pair of submarine transports to the island to collect the weapons, at which time your officers will receive the required $500 million...

(OOC: Payment in cash? Are you sure you wouldn't prefer bullion, or even flawless diamonds...)

OOC:
It's difficult to insure that bullion and diamonds are genuine, pure, and in the case od diamonds, natural(Kanuckistani artificial diamonds, even industrial varrieties, are by law chemicly taged such that they can be easily identifyed as such via spectrometer, but otherwise apear flawless; this is to create a readily identifyible varriance and avoid crashing diamons markets. Others may not be so inclined).

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