Nuclear Weapon

Despite their age, Nuclear Weapons (or atomics^[13]) are still used by the Imperium for example as a subject of the Exterminatus of a target planets.^[16]

Known Nuclear Weapons Platforms

• The Deathstrike Missile Launcher, though the Imperial Guard prefers Plasma warheads^[12].
• Imperial Navy warships may use atomics during Exterminatus and orbital bombardment^[13] or for ship-to-ship combat in macro-batteries or torpedoes^[15].
• Harbinger Bomber^[5]
• The Squat Land Train Bomb Battlewagon^[14]

Notable Instances of Nuclear Weapons Use

• The ancient civil wars which devastated Baal^[3]
• Mass use during the Unification Wars^[10]
• Corvus Corax and his rebels unleashed a nuclear bombardment of Kiavahr during their slave revolt.^[6]
• The Sarosh attempted to assassinate Lion El'Jonson with a nuclear warhead during the Great Crusade^[1]
• The Fall of the Lords of Gardinaal - Used by Gardinaal forces^[7]
• Unleashed by traitor forces against loyalists during the Battle of Isstvan III^[13]
• The Drop Site Massacre - The Iron Warriors launched a tactical nuclear weapon at Vulkan's position.^[4]
• During the Schism of Mars hundreds of nuclear weapons silos were fired against loyalist forces^[11].
• The Krieg Civil War^[2]
• In the Sabbat Worlds Crusade, the fallen hive Ferrozoica annihilated Vannick Hive with a nuclear device.^[17]
• Chaos Space Marine forces unleashed nuclear weapons against the world of Ioline during the Diamor Campaign^[8]
• The Blood Angels fleet launched mass nuclear bombardment against Tyranid forces during the Devastation of Baal.^[9]

See also

• Rad Weapon

Sources

• 1: Descent of Angels (Novel), Chapter 20
• 2: Imperial Armour Volume Five - The Siege of Vraks - Part One, pgs. 86-88
• 3: Index Astartes - Blood Angels
• 4: Fulgrim (Novel), Chapter 25
• 5: Tactica Aeronautica, pg. 21
• 6: The Horus Heresy Book Three - Extermination, pg. 133
• 7: The Horus Heresy Book Two - Massacre, pgs. 88–91
• 8: Black Crusade: Traitor's Hate, Chapter 2
• 9: Codex: Tyranids (8th Edition) — The Battle of Baal
• 10: A Thousand Sons (Novel), Chapter 22
• 11: Mechanicum (Novel), Chapter 3.01
• 12: Codex: Imperial Guard (5th Edition), pg. 55
• 13: Fulgrim (Novel), Chapter 21
• 14: Ork and Squat Warlords, pg. 40
• 15: Rogue Trader: Into the Storm, pg. 163
• 16: Dark Imperium: Godblight (Novel), Chapter 33
• 17: Necropolis (Novel) — The Founding (Omnibus), Chapter Four