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12 Best (& Weirdest) Nukes You Can Launch, Disarm Or Unlock In Video Games

August 14, 2020 by Kevin Thielenhaus

Grab your Geiger counters and put up some lead shielding, we’re sharing 12 apocalyptically huge and weird nukes in video games.

When Gandhi Goes Bad [Civilization]

Civilization is all about building your empire and taking over the world by any means necessary. You don’t have to be cruel — you can aim for a culture victory by spreading the good word, or by helping others with a country built on peace. Or you can build nukes and go hogwild.

There are nukes in every game in the Civilization series, but the funniest use of nukes comes from a long-known quirk in the game’s code. Gandhi, a well-known figure of peaceful revolution, but in Civilization he’s a war-monger with his finger on the big red nuke button.

Why was Gandhi so war-like in Civilization? It’s all due to a bug. Gandhi’s aggression rating starts at 1, which makes sense! He was a pretty peaceful guy. But, once a country converts to Democracy in Civilization, the aggression rating goes down by 2 points. Code being the way it is, that meant that Gandhi’s aggression rolled over when India becomes a democracy, turning into a 9. And that’s how warlord Gandhi was born.


Self-Destructive Behavior [MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries]

MechWarrior gives us the chance to live out our fantasies, stomping around in massive mechs loaded with an absurd amount of weapons. There’s just one downside — your mech has a nuclear core. If that core gets breached, you’ll experience a rapid meltdown and a massive explosion.

Those explosions aren’t apocalyptic like in reality, but they’ll still ruin your day. And it was a weapon you could use against your enemies — or they could use against you. MechWarrior 4 models the explosion, allowing you to get a dirty kill on enemies that target your tiny engine with precision blasts. The game is a simulator for a reason, and it’s pretty fun when all those big red warning lights appear — it’s a pretty unique method to go out in a blaze of glory.


Enjoy the biggest booms or lessons on the nature of deterrence on the next page.

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