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FLASH! NUCLEAR WAR CARD GAME 40th ANNIVERSARY signed and numbered special limited edition! The year 2005 is the 40th Anniversary of the first release of the Nuclear War Card Game, and in honor of that milestone, we are putting out this special signed and numbered limited edition. There will only be 500 copies of this special edition, and each will be signed by the inventor and the artist. This will be released at the ORIGINS game convention in June in Columbus Ohio, and we suspect that there won't be enough for everyone who wants one, so it would be a good idea to preorder this. $60.00

The NUCLEAR WAR CARD GAME won the Origins Awards HALL OF FAME on July 4, 1998, as one of the best games of all time! (You can read about the Origins Awards and all of the 1998 winners at http://www.originsawards.com/

We always have the annual National Nuclear War Card Game Tournament at the annual Origins Game Convention.. Be sure and attend if you can, because we always give away a great prize like a Supergerm watch or alarm clock, that can't be bought in stores. We also occasionally run an email Nuclear War tournament over a weekend. If you want to be in the next one, go to our store page (link at the bottom of this page) and ask to be on our email mailing list.

Both the Nuclear Escalation and Nuclear Proliferation games described below are supposed to come with a "Radioactive" Nuclear Misfunction die (just a 6-sided die with a mushroom cloud instead of a "one"). We now have new "Nuclear Misfunction dice". These have full color pictures on all six sides, including supergerm and supervirus as the two spots on the "two" side! If you got the game before we started including the new dice, and would like to buy one, they are $2 (plus the usual shipping charge).

NUCLEAR WAR CARD GAME: A comical cataclysmic card game for 2-6 players of all ages. A humorous confrontation between touchy world powers as each player attempts to sway his opponents' populations with diplomacy, propaganda, and finally nuclear weaponry. Little old ladies defect in electric cars and the dread SUPERGERM spreads devastation! Takes about 10 minutes to learn and about 30 minutes to play. Invented by Doug Malewicki in 1965, this game has remained popular for over 20 years. Anyone who ever had to participate in a "civil defense drill" by hiding under his or her desk in grade school, or ever had a bomb shelter in the back yard should play this game. One of the few games where it is possible to have no winners (often everybody loses!). You have to play it to believe it. This game's a blast! It was chosen for Games Magazine's "Games 100" for 1984. "The quintessential `beer-and-pretzels' game: simple, fast, easy to learn, and loads of fun. Minimal prep time: shuffle the decks and deal." - Tim Kask, Adventure Gaming Magazine. (Boxed, 140 cards and spinner). - $29.95

NUCLEAR ESCALATION CARD GAME: intended as the `expansion set' for Nuclear War, this game can be played separately or shuffled in with Nuclear War to make a bigger game. It brings the devastation up to date with cruise missiles, MX missiles, new Special cards, sneaky Spies, and Space Platforms. (And don't forget `Skippy' the feared SuperVirus). This game won the H G Wells Award for best SF Boardgame of 1983 awarded at Origins 1984 even though it is a card game! (Boxed, 148 cards plus our special, "radioactive" die.) - (Temporarily out of stock)

NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION: the second `expansion set' for Nuclear War, this explosively funny card game is for 2-6 players of all ages. Choose which world power you'll play: Little Bittyland, Bananaland, Bermuda Triabland, Bagmad, or one of many others included. Use your country's Special Power, secrets, top secrets, & propaganda to gain control of, or eliminate your enemy's population. When that inevitably fails, all-out war breaks out as players launch stealth bombers, submarines, scud missiles, and fire atomic cannons at each other. Stop attacks with patriot anti- missiles, stealth fighters, decoy missiles, saboteurs, and other special cards. Includes one of our special "Nuclear Misfunction" dice, which may glow in the dark if you get one of the lucky ones. Nuclear Proliferation adds special trading sessions, new top secret and other special cards. It's a sarcastic, humorous look at the futility of Atomic Warfare in the post-cold war 1990's, Can be played by itself, or combined with Nuclear War, Escalation, or both! - $29.95

NUCLEAR WAR and NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION now have NEW ART on the cards. The backs are the same as all the other cards, but there is new art on the faces, and we are including TWO NEW optional cards for Nuclear War. You can see them on This Page Please note that all of the cards are now in full color.

NEW EXPANSION now available for Nuclear War: Weapons of Mass Destruction! (WMD). If you are looking for the rules to combine WMD with Nuclear War or the other expansions, click here.

You can also buy the "population deck" from WMD separately for only $10. You can use this as a "deluxe" population deck for any of the Nuclear games below.

CARDLIST for Nuclear War, Escalation, and Proliferation.
NUCLEAR WAR Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

An amusing LETTER we received about Nuclear War (it's a bit fuzzy but I think you can read it).

Another FAN EMAIL we received about Nuclear War.

NUCLEAR WAR BOOSTER PACKS: All-new set of full color Nuclear War cards, same backs, same size as the other Nuclear War cards. Each booster pack comes with 8 randomly selected bonus cards to add to your Nuclear War set. New secrets, new specials, new sizes of warheads, including the incredible 200-megaton bomb & the horrifying Doomsday device. (Not available in every pack). Also each pack includes a proof-of-purchase card. For 40 proof of purchase cards, you can have a free SUPERGERM tshirt. - $2 for an 8 card pack.

BOOSTER PACK SPECIAL DEAL Get all 47 of the cards from the booster packs, plus 33 extras, plus an extra population deck (already cut apart for you) in this hand-assembled set. Not available in stores. - $35.

INDIVIDUAL CARDS: If you have found most of the cards, but just need one more (see the cardlist link below), we will sell you any one specified individual card for $3. Specify which card you need in "Comments". Unfortunately we can NOT sell you the two new cards that are now in Nuclear War individually for $3 each. In order to get them, we'd have to break open a pack and throw away the other cards. You can buy JUST the MISSILE deck from Nuclear War for $10.00 and this will include those two new cards.
To buy an individual card (specify which one in "comments"):

To buy just the Nuclear War missile deck and get the two new cards:

You can now buy a BLANK DECK of Nuclear War cards. This is a deck of 56 cards, with the backs the same as all the other Nuclear War cards, but the faces completely blank. Make up your own secrets. Add odd-sized warheads. Replace missing cards. Confuse your friends. Only $10 per deck.

NUCLEAR WAR BONUS PACKS!
We have put together two packages we call Nuclear War Bonus Packs #1 and #2. They are primarily for sale at conventions, or directly from us. We just put them in zip lock bags, so they aren't necessarily going through the regular distribution channels.)

In Nuclear War Bonus Pack #1 you get 9 new countries (different from the ones in Nuclear Proliferation), plus 5 warhead cards (from the booster packs), plus a set of population cards, a bumper sticker, (To see some of our bumper stickers, click here.) and a "player assistance chart" that reminds you how many population to deal, how space platforms work, what spies do, and which abms shoot down which missiles or bombers. Only $5 (plus the usual postage and handling.)

INuclear War Bonus Pack #2 (also known as INDIA/PAKISTAN WAR) is the rules for combining our NUCLEAR WAR CARD GAME and Mayfair Games' INDIA RAILS. You play India Rails, but whenever you draw a 'load' card, you may draw a special card (provided in the bonus pack) that allows you to draw a Nuclear War card. If you end up with a combination of Nuke War cards that fits (missile and warhead) you can Nuke a city that will delay your opponents. Included in the bonus pack is an orange china marker so you can mark the radioactive areas on the board (no one can build rails there). For $5 you get the rules, 15 cards, the china marker, (and an extra set of population cards, which you don't need to play this variant, but you can always use a fresh deck of population cards).

Also if there are any of you who don't already have India Rails (it was recently released by Mayfair), we have some copies of India Rails available for $35. (the regular retail price).

NUCLEAR WAR COUNTRY LISTS (from Nuclear Proliferation and the bonus pack #1)
NUCLEAR WAR BOOSTER PACK CARD LIST
SAMPLE NUCLEAR WAR BOOSTER AND NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION CARDS
NUCLEAR WAR Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
SUPERGERM TSHIRTS

NUCLEAR WAR COMPUTER GAME: New World Computing released this one-player computer version of the Nuclear War card game, but now it is available only from US. In this game, you play against 4 computer opponents, all of whom are parodies of famous world leaders (you get to choose from 12 potential opponents). It's a funny, fast paced game that you can play in about an hour and will want to play again and again. Nuclear War is available in IBM 3 1/2" format. ( 5 1/4" version available by special request.). The computer game comes in a zip lock bag. This program is a DOS program and should run on any computer that lets you run a DOS program. No longer available in an AMIGA version.$14. 95.

Or you can get it on a CD. The CD version is only $10, but you get a scanned copy of the manual on the CD instead of a printed copy.

Limited edition, Supergerm Mousepad. This is a hard plastic mousepad with a solar-powered calculator built in. The surface has the anti-missile and population charts from Nuclear War printed on it, along with the visage of our favorite Germ. Only $24.95.

If you need a price list of available Nuclear War Parts click here.

Play the Nuclear War Card Game online!
Through an agreement between GameTableOnline and Flying Buffalo, you can now play a game of NW anytime online, just like you would play it at home. They charge a small monthly fee, but for that fee you get to play all their online games, all you want.

By the way "This is the secr*t word" = UNKARWE. (See the home page for information on the s*cret word.) If you are one of the first few people to send me an email telling me the secr*t word, and giving me your postal mailing address, I'll send you a free bumper sticker. If you don't win the bumper sticker, but would like a free catalog, just say so. Please, one free bumper sticker per person. Note: if you don't send me your name & address, I can't mail you a bumper sticker! (Note: I realized if I actually spell out secr*t word, someone could find it using a search engine, without actually searching through my webpages. (Tsk, tsk). So I stuck an asterisk there instead of one of the "e's". But you know what I meant!)

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