History of Nuclear Accidents in Puertego
Puertego's history of nuclear accidents is solely based on an accident involving the government of Puertego losing 10 large ballistic missiles carrying nuclear warheads, the weapons that were placed in the country were largely placed in the country during the late 1970's and early 1980's. The Puertegan government started an investigation on the location of the weapons in 2002 a few weeks after it was discovered the nuclear weapons were missing, the investigation lasted until 2022 where it was ended, afterwards the government of Puertego offered the equivalent of $50,000 in exchange for information on the location of the nuclear weapons.
History
In the mid 1970's many of the nations of Vallos in particular the Delepasian Commonwealth and Takatta Loa began developing nuclear weapons in order to more effectively stand up to the world superpowers at the time. Many of these programs did not begin to show results until the late 1970's where the first nuclear tests were successful, at the time the government of Puertego was very friendly towards the governments testing out these nuclear weapons and agreed to harbor the nuclear weapons the nations created due to the nation's strategic position to the superpowers and many middle powers at the time. The nuclear weapons stayed in the country during the almost 20-year rule of the Red May Pary, the Red May Parties rule saw a much more closed off and aggressive stance towards the other Vallosian countries stopping any movement of nuclear weapons between the countries and Puertego.
After the collapse of the communist government in the late 90's and the transition to the White Flag Communist Party in the early 2000's which had a much less aggressive stance towards other nations however the other Vallosian nations with nuclear weapons still in Puertego asked for them to be returned in 2001, however upon a search the government of Puertego announced to the nations that it had lost the nuclear weapons. An investigation was almost immediately compiled by the new government in order to attempt to locate the weapons in which time the new government of Puertego was widely viewed as distrustworthy due to a loss of something that major. The investigation was officially canceled in 2022, 20 years after its creation, the government of Puertego is estimated to have spent half a billion dollars in their search with no results for the locations of the weapons and has shifted from an actual investigation to simply offering anyone who can provide information on the location of the weapons the equivalent of $50,000 in damillos.
Longterm Impact
How much the incident of the government losing the other Vallosian nations nuclear weapons can be blamed for creating their current situation is a topic of vigorous debate among historians however all agree that it played a large part in many other governments caution in working with Puertego. The Puertegan government of the time blamed the incident for their entering into a liquidity crisis and defaulting on their debt claiming that the view of them as untrustworthy and incompetent led to their foreign investment and trade plummeting and international creditors not being willing to lend to them, some historians even go as far with this line of thinking as to say that the incident of Puertego losing the weapons caused the state to slip into tyranny. The reputation of the Puertegan government has only began recovering from this view of it recently approximately in the last 10 years with other countries having begun to once again make deals with Puertego around that time and trade only beginning to pick up once again after the economic reforms of Puertegan President Matthias Torres a few years before.