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Atomic Tourism

Do you know that more than 2000 nuclear warheads was used during 20th century?

I was looking at the video of "nuclear tests" above and got a revelation - after Cuban Missile Crisis "superpowers" was using them as an intimidation device!

Which quickly leads me to an idea, how to fix nukes in civ v, which at the present state are either not used at all, or quickly unleashed at the helpless AI, who does not understands how to wage atomic war.

Then I've googled "Atomic Tourism" and it's really is a thing! :)


1. All nukes deal the same damage, cost 1 uranium, missile cost lowered to 800 hummers. (file - Nukes.xml)
2. Nukes are more effective against population, much less effective against units and city defence (Defines.xml)
3. Bomb Shelter moved to Atomic Theory Tech, adds 11 defense to the city, but saves only 50% population (Bomb Shelter.xml)
4. Nuclear Plant adds 15% production when building nukes (Nuclear Plant.xml)
5. Nuclear Test Site building added to the Nuclear Fission Tech, it costs 1 uranium and provides 2 happiness and 6 tourism (Test Site.xml)

If you don't like any of the changes - navigate to:
Users\...your username...\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\MODS\Atomic Tourism
and delete corresponding file.

Nukes are now effective at what they really should be - killing millions of innocent civilians and slowing enemy economy. But then you have to move conventional forces in to conquer the territory. So more than one bomb/missile per city is not needed and you can use uranium on other things, including atomic parties on the roofs of Las Vegas Casinos ;) Fortunately AI's approach to waging atomic war by 1 nuke per turn to random city works quite fine here.

ICBM Nuclear Missile mod is supported (and it's crush problem should be fixed).
In general it should work with everything which doesn't change nuclear weapons.

My other mods
List of all mods I'm using

VDNKh, some of his ideas from the M.A.D. mod was used here.

1. Icons
2. Civilopedia texts
3. Lack of additional atomic age crasiness

End game content is quite hard to balance properly, so your suggestions are very welcome in the comments.