Nuclear bomb

"Missiles fired! Missiles fired, full spray! Sensors detect multiple warheads on each with radioactive signature. They're nuclear, Admiral."

- Dallan Morvis to Saul Karath

Nuclear bombs were powerful explosives capable of ruining neighborhoods or cities and left residual radiation after their detonation.

Description
The nuclear weapons used by the Mandalorians during the Mandalorian Wars were silver missiles with long, tubular bodies and red nose cones. On the aft end of their silver bodies, they had four fins.

The destruction capable by these weapons varied, but almost any nuclear missile could level a city. Most had a blast radius of 30 kilometers, and could deal heavy radiation damage up to a 100 kilometer radius.

The bomb was detonated using nuclear fission. Most nuclear weapons used a radioactive substance known as uranium because of its large and unstable nucleus.

History
"This&hellip;is a new phase of the war. We're going to have to change the way we look at things."

- Karath on the Mandalorian's devastation of Serroco



In 3963 BBY, after Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders invaded Galactic Republic space and initiated the Mandalorian Wars, the Mandalorians procured a supply of nuclear missiles. On the eve of the Battle of Serroco, several Force-sensitives across the galaxy experienced visions of a Mandalorian bombardment that would devastate the planet of Serroco's surface. A former Padawan, Zayne Carrick, who was actually on that world when he saw this stowed away aboard a Republic ship and announced that he was a Jedi so he would be taken to their flagship, the Courageous. However, upon discovering that Carrick had been accused of perpetrating the Padawan Massacre of Taris the commander of the Republic fleet, Saul Karath became convinced that he was misleading them on behalf of the Mandalorians.

They were also used during the Battle of Jebble by Cassus Fett to completely wipe out the Rakghoul plague that had spread to many of the Mandalorians there. This led to a sudden and severe melting of the ice that covered the planet.

It was said that HAVw A6 Juggernauts could produce heat on the level of a nuclear bomb.

An Imperial nuclear warhead was captured by the Rebel Alliance from the freighter Gafra during Operation Strike Fear. The warhead was then smuggled onto the Star Destroyer Invincible, destroying it from the inside.

By the time period shortly following the Battle of Yavin in 0 BBY, nuclear weapons were usually found only in the Outer Rim Territories or beyond.

Leia Organa believed the planet Shiva IV to have been the setting for a devastating war in which nuclear bombs had been used. Imperial General Bentilais san Sk'ar later tried to bombard the planet with anti-matter bombs, but was stopped by the Rebel Alliance.

In 137 ABY, the planet of Serroco was still a wasteland of blackened sands.

Appearances

 * The Star Wars: Rough Draft
 * Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War 1: Edge of the Whirlwind
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 15: Days of Fear, Part 3
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 28: Vector, Part 4
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 37: Prophet Motive, Part 2
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
 * Darth Plagueis
 * Maul: Lockdown
 * Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of ThonBoka
 * Star Wars: X-Wing
 * Star Wars 53: The Last Gift From Alderaan!
 * Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor
 * The New Jedi Order: Vector Prime