Nuclear | |
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Technology field | |
Parent Tree | Industrial |
Historical Years | 1936 to 1944 |
Total Technologies | 8 |
Total Difficulty | 750 |
Main Specialties | Nuclear Engineering Nuclear Physics Management |
Main Effects | Nuclear reactor construction Access to nuclear propulsion & weapons |
Nuclear is an Industrial technology field. The technologies in the field mark a linear progression to developing the science behind nuclear reactions, permitting access to studies in nuclear propulsion and weapons. The only direct effect of study in the field is to permit building of a Nuclear Reactor.
Technologies[]
Year | Technology | Difficulty | Effects |
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1936 | Faculty of Atomic Research | 50 | |
1936 | Atomic Research Laboratories | 50 | |
1939 | Faculty of Nuclear Research | 50 | |
1941 | Isotope Separation Facility | 60 | Allows Nuclear Reactor size 1 |
1941 | Nuclear Fuel Analysis | 60 | Allows Nuclear Reactor size 2 |
1941 | Experimental Reactor | 60 | Allows Nuclear Reactor size 3 |
1943 | Nuclear Reactor Operability | 60 | Allows Nuclear Reactor size 4 |
1944 | Nuclear Power Production | 60 | Allows Nuclear Reactor size 5 and may lead to weapon and propulsion fields |
Specialties[]
Specialty | Components | Total Difficulty |
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Chemistry | 1 | 10 |
Management | 3 | 60 |
Mathematics | 2 | 20 |
Nuclear Engineering | 24 | 260 |
Nuclear Physics | 10 | 100 |
Strategy[]
The Nuclear field is the necessary building block for any nation aspiring to wield nuclear weapons. While such a capability is quite an advantage, most countries will have to seriously weigh the importance of pursuing such a capability, due the heavy costs of researching the Nuclear field as well as the follow-on fields which actually provide any capabilities and the need to build an expensive reactor to reap any benefits of the study. For any nation pursuing the goal of being the first to gain the bomb, it is best to simply assign a research slot to the effort, regardless of historical years, and suffer the crawl towards increasing capability. One must also assign a heavy industrial capacity to the effort to build reactor levels as quickly as research makes increases possible. This will not only improve research rates, but is necessary to actually build bombs once the country reaches that point. Remember that you can only build a single reactor and thus it should be placed somewhere safe from any incursions by enemy attacks and ideally well protected from enemy bomber raids. Heavy air defenses and nearby airfields for interceptors may be warranted depending on the threats posed.
See also[]
Nuclear technologies |
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Atomic Faculty | Atomic Labs | Nuclear Faculty | Isotope Separation | Nuclear Fuel | Experimental Reactor | Operability | Power |
Industrial technology fields |
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Agriculture | Cryptography | Manufacturing | Material Science | Nuclear | Radar Warning | Rocketry | Synthetic Oil |