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So I was playing around with nuclear weapons earlier (forgot what mom said about playing with thermonuclear fire...). I got curious to see if tundra got turned into desert, because desert in the (ant)arctic would be weird. So I played around. nuke-a-forming results:
Old->New
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Plains -> Desert
Grassland -> Plains
Tundra -> Tundra
Desert -> Desert
We all knew these. However, you might not know this:
Jungle -> Grassland (mostly. sometimes becomes plains. not sure why. I think it may have to do with latitude)
Forest on Plains -> Plains (haven't tried this; no available forest on plains; could become desert as above)
Forest on Grassland -> Grassland (maybe the same two step as before)
Forest on Tundra -> Tundra
But the best one of all? If you have plains by a river, and you nuke it, you get.... Flood Plain. Uh huh. So a plan occurs to me. Say I've got 6 plains on either side of a river. Along one side is grassland and more plains, only not bordering river, like:
|P|R|P|G
|P|R|P|G
|P|R|P|P
The bolded plain is my target. So I plant forest on the grasslands and plains to the east. Then I nuke right there in the middle. If all goes well, I now have:
|F|R|F|G
|F|R|F|G
|F|R|F|P
Along with a whole lot of pollution, of course. Naturally I have a bunch of settlers around to push into there and re-improve and clean up.
Now, if you nuke one of your own cities, you lose half population. If you nuke NEXT to one of your cities, you only lose 1 pop. Either way you get only 8 pollution squares. And remember that water doesn't get polluted. So if you've got a bunch of plains next to the sea with a river going through them....
Too bad nukes come so late. This would be handy.
Old->New
-------------
Plains -> Desert
Grassland -> Plains
Tundra -> Tundra
Desert -> Desert
We all knew these. However, you might not know this:
Jungle -> Grassland (mostly. sometimes becomes plains. not sure why. I think it may have to do with latitude)
Forest on Plains -> Plains (haven't tried this; no available forest on plains; could become desert as above)
Forest on Grassland -> Grassland (maybe the same two step as before)
Forest on Tundra -> Tundra
But the best one of all? If you have plains by a river, and you nuke it, you get.... Flood Plain. Uh huh. So a plan occurs to me. Say I've got 6 plains on either side of a river. Along one side is grassland and more plains, only not bordering river, like:
|P|R|P|G
|P|R|P|G
|P|R|P|P
The bolded plain is my target. So I plant forest on the grasslands and plains to the east. Then I nuke right there in the middle. If all goes well, I now have:
|F|R|F|G
|F|R|F|G
|F|R|F|P
Along with a whole lot of pollution, of course. Naturally I have a bunch of settlers around to push into there and re-improve and clean up.
Now, if you nuke one of your own cities, you lose half population. If you nuke NEXT to one of your cities, you only lose 1 pop. Either way you get only 8 pollution squares. And remember that water doesn't get polluted. So if you've got a bunch of plains next to the sea with a river going through them....
Too bad nukes come so late. This would be handy.
WOW that radiation must help grow super-crops! that explains the EXTRA food after a nuke! 
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