This isn't fantasy, either. There were plenty of air-to-air and surface-to-air nuclear-tipped missiles. All of the ones mentioned on Wikipedia [0] have official

This isn't fantasy, either. There were plenty of air-to-air and surface-to-air nuclear-tipped missiles. All of the ones mentioned on Wikipedia [0] have officially been decommissioned for 40+ years, a development due both to disarmament agreements and advances in targeting by conventional missiles. But I wouldn't be shocked to learn there are still some deployed. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Nuclear_anti-aircraft_weapons https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Nuclear_anti-aircra...