Nuclear Poker

Nuclear Poker teaches the logic of nuclear deterrence. You play against two to four AI powers, in your browser.

Each turn you draw a card or offer a trade. Collect the four Technologies to make a Nuclear Test, then the Capabilities to strike: short range at your neighbours, long range at anyone, a counter-strike from beyond the grave. Hold all four and you are a Superpower. Trades can be broken, threats can be bluffs, and the other powers remember who cheated them.

There is no victory rule. The game ends when one power is left, when nobody is, when everyone agrees to stand down, or in a stalemate. If every power left holds all eight cards, it ends in Mutually Assured Destruction and everyone wins.

Credits: original game by Vinay Gupta and Dan Carter (GNU FDL licensed). This is an unofficial digital adaptation, with rules adapted from the original for play against AI powers. Art, music and sound were made with generative AI tools (Meshy and ElevenLabs).

Source code: https://github.com/vectorless/nuclear-poker