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Tendo Choi cradles his dying grandfather as Trespasser is killed with a nuclear missile.
Nuclear weapons delivery is the technology and systems used to place a nuclear weapon at the position of detonation, on or near its target. Several methods have been developed to carry out this task. At the beginning of the Kaiju War, governments across the Pacific Rim resorted to tactical nuclear weaponry to kill the hostile alien species known as the Kaiju. Growing concerns regarding nuclear fallout forced humanity to consider unorthodox methods to fight the Kaiju. At the end of the war, a thermonuclear bomb was used in an attempt to destroy the Breach.
History[]
K-DAY[]
August 10, 2013, the Kaiju Trespasser attacked the cities of San Francisco, Sacramento and Oakland over a six day period.[1]
August 15th, the military used three nuclear missiles to kill the creature.[2] The the nuclear fallout large swaths of the Bay Area uninhabitable for centuries.[3] The San Francisco Bay Area area was later named the "San Francisco Exclusion Zone".[4]
Scissure Attack[]
2014, Scissure was the fourth Kaiju to attack a major city, Sydney, on the Pacific Rim. It took the military three days to lure Scissure into an isolated area of the city in order to kill it with nuclear missiles. The incident was part of the inspiration that led Jasper Schoenfeld to create the Jaegers.[2]
Assault on the Breach[]
January 12, 2025, the Pan Pacific Defense Corps used its surviving Jaegers, Striker Eureka and Gipsy Danger in attempt to destroy the Breach using a thermonuclear bomb acquired by Russian pilots Sasha and Aleksis Kaidonovsky.[1]
Their efforts were blockaded by Slattern, Scunner, and Raiju, who damaged Striker Eureka's ability to deliver the payload to the Breach. Striker Eureka detonated the bomb. The explosion wounded Slattern and killed Scunner.[1]