Fengjiang and weapons of mass destruction

Phoenicia has developed and possesses weapons of mass destruction, including, , and weapons. The first of Phoenicia's atomic weapons tests occurred on 27 December 1955 as part of Project Double-N, whereas its first test occurred on 19 November 1955 as part of Project Ashen Spring. Tests occurred monthly and were often used as methods of intimidation or in response to world events, this trend only slowing after the signing of the Atomic Ban Convention in 19XX, enshrining Phoenicia as an enforcing power responsible for ratifying the ABC's terms of atomic. Since then, most atomic tests have occurred, in the spirit of the convention and to mitigate spread of radioactive.

The exact number of atomic warheads possessed by Phoenicia is highly confidential, additionally obscured by the fact that its atomic stockpile is divided between four different megacorporations: being PKT Group, Koutei-Sakaguchi Consolidated, Royal Vermilion Investment Corporation, and Eastech. It is estimated that there are currently around 8,000 atomic warheads in the Phoenician arsenal, spread between actively deployed platforms concentrated in submarine deployed and theater-ranged as well as reserved stockpiles. Since Barenia's deployment of its in 19XX and Phoenicia's later and similar deployment of the Tianwang network in 19XX, most of Phoenician  platforms have been dismantled, especially  variants.

Officially, Phoenicia maintains that it "reserves the right to deploy atomic weapons when necessary to defend the interests of Phoenicia and Phoenicians", a policy of ambiguity which is theorized as a form of deterrence towards any direct military provocation against the country and its native ethnicity, atomic or otherwise - historical crises have seen the country engage in a doctrine of "escalate to de-escalate", using threat of and escalation to compel similarly atomic-armed powers to concede and de-escalate in crisis scenarios. Its status as an enforcer in the ABC obligates it to enforce the convention's terms of non-proliferation, and it has been a major proponent of military action against atomic "" - notably affirming its willingness to use "any weapon in [its] arsenal" against such states. Phoenician national security policy views the enforcement of the "atomic monopoly" by the ABC's leading powers as essential to the continued security of the country.

Phoenicia has never signed any restricting development and deployment of chemical or biological weapons, its official policy maintaining that both weapons are  legal for use in both times of peace and war. To date, the Phoenician chemical and biological weapons programs are the largest and most sophisticated in the world, still seeing unhindered research and development in the modern day. It has been suspected of actively deploying both weapons on an international scale in pursuit of its objectives in the ongoing Cold War, notably manifesting in several cases of poisonings and suspicious disease outbreaks in foreign countries.

Chemical weapons
Chemical weapons have been developed and used in Phoenicia even before the modern state of Phoenicia was formed, seeing its first development in the Great Fragmentation (1303-1810) - a massive civil war in Phoenicia lasting some 500 years - as the Generalship of Zhengdong, a major belligerent in the conflict, made widespread use of during the Battle of Xiaxingjia in 1598. Use of chemical weapons became common doctrine in the coming decades as all major belligerents began their own chemical weapon programs, seeing massive use in all theaters of the conflict, especially in the decisive conflicts of the Battles of Fengzhuamen, Siege of Hiroshikawa, and Shangyin Ridge War. When the Great Fragmentation ended in 1810 with the First Fengtianmen Congress, the surviving Five Great Houses had each amassed thousands of tons of chemical weapons, including chlorine,, , , and. It is theorized that the widespread use of chemical weapons during the conflict had normalized it as a in Phoenician military doctrine even as the country eventually came into conflict with foreign powers with (especially Hatarian ones) with a contrary mindset. The Great Serrataran War (1936-1947) would see the greatest use of chemical weapons in any conflict in history, as it is estimated that several hundred thousand tons of chemical weapons had been deployed throughout the conflict, mainly in the form of deployed by Phoenicia on the Serican front.