Weapons and Artillery Bureau

The Weapons and Artillery Bureau is a child agency of the SIA; the most secretive of all their child agencies, and an agency devoted to the manufacturing (sometimes design), investigation and design of weapons for either Shops Island or abroad, especially nuclear weapons. The agency also owns all nuclear power plants on the island. They technically own all government weapon manufacturing programs on Shops Island, not the SIA as a whole.

History
When Shops Island's military was expanded in March 2013, a new agency, the WAB, was created to develop weapons for the SIA. The WAB manufactured over 1,000,000 guns right away, 50,000 tanks, and 20,000 aircraft. Soon after, the USA recognized Shops' struggle against the Snoss and gave Shops help in developing large nuclear weapons (they had 4 small ones before the expansion). It took no time to develop 250 nuclear warheads before they agreed to stop manufacturing them with the April 2013 UAN Resolutions. At that same time, relations between the Shoppers and the Snoss began to improve. Their two main targets now were Yow and the Melodeeves, and the WAB has started manufacturing weapons contoured especially to fight the Yowiens and the Melodeeviens.

Involvement
The WAB is involved mainly in the design and manufacturing of weapons, be that for domestic or international use.

International
International crises have caused the WAB to get themselves involved with investigating many controversial weapons subjects in Antarctica alongside UAN peacekeeping groups. The WAB also manufactures some weapons specifically for UAN usage. They have been crucial in sniffing out illegal weapons possessions in suspicious areas.

Nuclear Capabilities
The WAB has nuclear capabilities as powerful as Nuke Island. The country is currently producing a steady rate of plutonium. The uranium is mined from Freezestonia and Uranium Island before being transferred to Plutonium Bay to be turned into plutonium. Before, Shops could roll out about 50 plutonium rods a day. When the island was built, and the plants were set up, that number increased to over 10,000 a day. Ever since the Fall of Nexon, it has dropped significantly as the SIA switched to using Squarium-based weapons that are as powerful as nuclear weapons.

Criticism
Before it even happened, the WAB was receiving heavy criticism from environmentalists throughout Antarctica. Environmentalists feared that the mass-production of plutonium would cause lots of pollution. Shops' government officials reassured the environmentalists that the plant was put strategically so that the wind currents carried the pollution to the Yowien Sea. This surprisingly made a lot of critics happy. Criticism on the behalf of pollution has calmed recently as Plutonium Bay has become more and more defunct.

Trivia

 * The WAB also manufactures many unique brands of weapons used only by foreign countries.