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The Kingdom of Pelinai is a recently emerged nuclear power and one of the most recent states to successfully construct and deploy a currently functional nuclear arsenal. It is known to possess a wide variety of tactical- and strategic-yield nuclear warheads in large quantities, as well as a complete nuclear triad delivery system complex capable of ensuring second strike capability. Pelinai has never used nuclear weapons of any type in a military conflict, but does not adhere to a no first use policy and explicitly reserves the right to utilize nuclear armaments and other weapons of mass destruction in cases of conventional military aggression against its territory or the first enemy usage of WMDs against its own forces.

The Pelinese state is believed to possess approximately 12,000 to 13,000 operable nuclear weapons, the majority of which are tactical-size warheads of 20Kt yield or lower. An estimated 2,000~3,000 warheads of the Pelinese arsenal, primarily the strategic yield component, are in active service in various land- and submarine-launched ballistic missiles and in forward deployment magazines at airbases; the remainder are kept in reserve in order to provide a credible ability to wage protracted nuclear warfare.

The Pelinese nuclear weapons program was initiated in 1968 as one of the primary components of Project Apricot, a large-scale, dual-purpose development program to pursue a comprehensive, fully domestic nuclear complex encompassing a complete pipeline of uranium mines, uranium enrichment facilities, commercial reactors, nuclear fuel reprocessing sites, high-level waste long-term storage sites, and a nuclear weapons arsenal. Initial developmental work on the weapons section began at Nuclear Complex G68, the program’s first assigned research facility, the same year; subsequent research, design, and construction of support facilities to source plutonium and other critical materials proceeded slowly under both the Pelinese and Belogoran administrations throughout the second half of the twentieth century, with severe setbacks from facility damage caused by the Pelinese Civil War, until the final construction of a theoretically functional warhead in April 1999. The scheduled test detonation of the device was delayed for over one year by the ongoing construction of the underground nuclear testing facility at Meiaka, Yukisora, whose completion in August 2000 allowed for the eventual successful detonation of the device. The Pelinese nuclear program’s scope and funding both grew significantly throughout the 2000s and 2010s following the program’s technical success, facilitated by rising economic prosperity and accompanying increases in government access to resources: this resulted in a growing number of warhead types in production and a large increase in the program’s capacity for scaled production of warhead pits. The modern Pelinese nuclear armaments design and production system is now presently one of the most developed and technically advanced in the world, with extensive expertise in warhead manufacturing and access to a large supply of fissile and other critical weapon materials. (Full article...)