Nuclear weapons on Micras

It is interesting to note that, in the recorded history of Micras, the use of atomic and thermonuclear weapons has only occurred in circumstances where a government has felt compelled to either eradicate or suppress its own population. The two most salient examples of this practice are the Babkhan Holocaust of 1598 AN, which had a lasting impact on the population and ecology of the Euran continent, and the Obedience Destruction carried out by Jingdao against its own restive population centres in 164_ AN. To date there has not been a single recorded instance of an inter-state nuclear exchange. That the nuclear threshold was not reached or exceeded, even during system-wide conflicts such as the War of Lost Brothers, might best be understood as being a consequence of a widespread understanding of the irrevocable and disruptive nature of atomic warfare - with the fate of Babkha being perhaps the starkest warning to the existing nuclear powers of the present era in this regards.

That systemic warfare has persisted in spite of the existence of nuclear weapons, alongside a myriad of other biological, chemical, orbital, and radiological weapons of mass destruction, is perhaps a testimony to the enduring utility and efficacy of the application of armed force in the realms of politics and diplomacy and the settling of human affairs.