question about captured wonders

[JohnM2433]

vmxa1, nuclear weapons can indeed be built by a civ that has not discovered Fission -- tactical nukes and ICBMs require only the Space Flight and Satellites techs, respectively. However, all nuclear (or as they say in Washington, "nukular") weapons require both uranium and aluminum to be built.

By the way, how "historical" would it be to have the Manhattan Project as a Small Wonder? That is, after nuclear weapons were first developed, was the knowledge of how to make them generally obtained from already nuclear-capable countries (through open sharing of information or, more likely, espionage), or independently rediscovered? Probably a combination of both, I'm guessing, but if anyone here knows about the history of nuclear weapon development, please share. I agree we should be able to make the Manhattan Project a SW in the editor, btw.

[vmxa1]

I understand what is required in the game, I am only saying that because of MP in the US, no other nations was then able to know about making atom bombs the same day. They were forced to learn the skills/knowlegde or steal it and then come up with the necessary components. In the game the knowlegde is granted to all from the MP. The other tech and resources they must get for themselfs. I would prefer to make them all do a shadow MP and that could be done with a SW. This is not as a mod, but a change in the game itself. Better yet let me disable nukes as a valid weapon in the game at start up time.

[bbaws]

Thanks for respecting my opinion Catt, I was about to post the pollution problem after Hoover Dam myself.

[bbaws]

The Manhattan project is a historical misnomer. They didn't test the first A bomb in manhattan. They tested it in the Nevada desert. You may remember that John Wayne died of lung cancer? So did everyone else that worked on a movie called "the Searchers" tiny particles of plutonium they inhaled while they filmed the movie in the Nevada Desert caused cancer, JW had parts of his lungs progressively removed, partly to get rid of the cancer but mainly to get rid of the minute plutonium particles. It took twenty years after JW died for that little gem to get into the public domain. The very name "Manhattan Project" was an exercise in secrecy. It is rightly a small wonder. Would you use a weapon you hadn't tested?

[vmxa1]

The name is not a misnomer, it was not intend to imply that it was test in NY. I can not recall, but I think it had to do with the NYCC and the people involved. No one would think they tested in Manhattan. One may conclude that the dukes cancer had at least a bit to do with the decades of smoking. Where did you get that "gem" from the web? Now there a solid place to find the true.

[Jaybe]

BTW, the very first nuke test was at Los Alamos, New Mexico, not in Nevada. It was some time later that the Nevada Test Site came into being, sometime in the 1950's.

I remember seeing a couple of above ground nuke tests in the late 50's from the Las Vegas area. Just a small flash (apparent 1/2" diameter) above the horizon.