Ajahadya and weapons of mass destruction

From its inception in 1951 until its voluntary dismantling in 1982, Ajahadya had a secret program intended to develop both nuclear weapons and an indigenous ballistic missile system capable of mounting nuclear warheads. The program, following numerous financial overruns and technical issues, was formally confirmed and discontinued in 1982 following the creation of ROSPO with the Atomic Energy Commission being allowed full access to the program's dismantlement and annual inspections of Ajahadya's nuclear program to ensure it remains used for peaceful purposes only.

Ajahadya has a policy of strategic ambiguity in regards to its possession of biological weapons and chemical weapons, neither having confirmed its possession of them or denied it. Ajaahadya is believed to possess extensive stockpiles of both by multiple Euclean intelligence agencies, but estimates on the size and composition of its arsenal of both varies between estimation.

Ajahadya
Nuclear program start date	1951
First nuclear weapon test	None
First fusion weapon test	None
Last nuclear test	None
Largest yield test	None
Total tests	0
Peak stockpile	0
Current stockpile	None; the programme was voluntarily discontinued in 1982 with facilities being dismantled under Atomic Energy Commission supervision.
Maximum range	644 kilometres (400 mi) Navikarna SRBM

Nuclear Weapons

In the early 1950s, in the aftermath of the First Hyndanan War following the death of Mohan Balchandra, his son, Nishant Balchandra, declared in a 1951 Union Defence Council meeting that 'Hyndana must possess all weapons necessary to defend itself against her enemies, both near and far' which is widely believed to be the first indication of the start of development of nuclear weapons in Ajahadya.

The program, begun in 1951 and ended in 1982, is widely regarded by nuclear scholars as a textbook example of 'how not to run a nuclear weapons program', and has been labeled as the 'least successful nuclear weapons program in history'. Nishant Balchandra, in a 1992 interview on the program, admitted that the program had been 'a colossal waste of time and money and one of the greatest policy failures of my government.'

Ajahadya's nuclear program was centered around the Svaragni Nuclear Research Laboratory, built in 1951 as the home for Ajahadya's nuclear research and housing Ajahadya's first nuclear reactor, intended for research purposes. This reactor would reach output levels of 2MW in 1955 and 4MW in 1964. The Svaragni Radiological Research Facility would be constructed from 1964 to 1973, intended to refine yellowcake, produce fuel for nuclear reactors and reprocess plutonium from spent nuclear fuel from the Svaragni Labratory's reactor. The delays in the construction of the Svaragni Radiological Research Facility and increasing costs, plus Ajahadyan military superiority in the Second Hyndanan War lessened the Ajahadyan leadership's enthusiasm for the nuclear project.

A reactor intended for the large-scale production of plutonium was begun in 1972, but the outbreak of the Third Hyndanan War put Ajahadya's nuclear program on hold, with funding being redirected to the military instead. The reactor's construction site would be destroyed by a Subarnan airstrike in 1974, drastically setting back Ajahadya's program. By 1978, with the loss of Lower Hynd to Subarna and with its military greatly reduced, Ajahadya's nuclear program was effectively defunct from lack of funds and political will to continue with the program, especially after the death of Arjuna Kalasarah in 1981, the main advocate for the program. Nishant Balchandra announced the program's existence in 1982 following the foundation of ROSPO and asked the Atomic Energy Commission to inspect Ajahadya's then current nuclear facilities during their conversion to non-military purposes.

Since 1982, although Ajahadya has cooperated with Xiaodong on nuclear matters, the Atomic Energy Commission has been allowed full access annually to inspect Ajahadya's nuclear facilities to verify that they are only intended for peaceful purposes. The Svaragni Nuclear Research Laboratory's reactor with Xiaodongese assistance was upgraded to an output of 8MW in 1988. The reactor was dismantled in 2000, with a replacement 10 MW light-water reactor, along with the construction of a new activation analysis laboratory and a new medical isotope production laboratory. The Svaragni Radiological Research Facility and Svaragni Nuclear Research Laboratory both remain operational, and the Atomic Energy Commission conducts regular inspections of the facilities.

Biological Weapons

Ajahadya's biological weapons program is believed to have begun in 1981, shortly after the death of Arjuna Kalasarah and the ascension of Salil Balchandra to the position of Chair of the Union Defence Council, with the intention of providing a deterrent against Subarna. The program is believed to be ongoing as of 2019, and to have investigated a minimum of nine bacterial strains, three fungal strains, seven types of virus, and six types of toxin for weaponisation. Equipment to produce chemical weaponry was likely obtained through the use of Ajahadya's State Ministry for Agricultural Research purchasing equipment from Euclea, and the National Health Bureau providing samples of Bacillus anthracis, Bashurat Fever, Clostridium botulinum, Brucella melitensis, Clostridium perfringens and Rotavirus, originally intended for medical research, to the program.

Research is believed to have been set up at the Nicarva Biological Research Laboratory and the Lalapula Experimental Chemical Laboratory in 1982, with a production center located at the Phata Weapons Production Plant. It is believed the Phata Weapons Production Plant has produced and weaponised into rockets, missiles and artillery shells at least 10,000 liters of concentrated botulinum toxin, 6,600 liters of concentrated anthrax and 4,200 liters of aflatoxin since the start of production in 1986 with more in unweaponised stocks. It is unknown where these armaments are stored in peacetime, and no records of their use have been confirmed.

Chemical Weapons

Ajahadya's chemical weapons program is believed to have started in 1972 and have been primarily funded with funding redirected from the nuclear program. Given the speed of development, it is widely believed, but not confirmed, that an Ajahadyan chemical weapons program may have been running since as early as 1952 but was drastically underfunded due to running in parallel with the then more promising Ajahadyan nuclear program. The program is widely believed to have begun under the cover of a pesticide plant at Lalapula constructed in the 1950s which the program used to purchase a chlorine plant and other vital pieces of equipment prior to 1972 that were swiftly repurposed to the production of chemical weapons.

By 1975, the chemical weapons program, believed to be based at the Lalapula Experimental Chemical Laboratory with production at the nearby Lalapula Pesticide Complex, was able to produce mustard gas which saw extensive use by Ajahadyan forces in the Third Hyndanan War against a superiorly equipped Subarnan army throughout the rest of the war. By 1978, the facility was producing nerve agents such as sarin and tabun which saw limited use in the final year of the Third Hyndanan War. It is the opinion of some scholars of the war that the only reason Ajahadya did not lose the Third Hyndanan War is through the contributions made by the scientists at Lalapula in the development of chemical weapons. It is believed that the chemical weapons program did not end with the war's end, and that VX entered production in the early 1980s.

Ajahadya is estimated to possess at a minimum 2,000 tons of mustard gas, 300 tons of Tabun, 800 tons of Sarin and 200 tons of VX, with maximum estimates at 3,000 tons of mustard gas, 800 tons of Tabun, 1000 tons of Sarin and 700 tons of VX.