After 2019, all US fleet attack-submarines, initially including the 'Sea Wolf' and 'Vader' classes were outfitted with Hauer2 or Hauer3 class torpedoes for increased tactical lethality and deterrence in naval warfare, each torpedo armed with a 15 megaton nuclear charge.
In this case, the weapons' origins and history are considered to be of unique interest. The 'nuclear torpedo' was first conceived of and popularized by the 2009 film Arnie Breaks Everything (James Cameron/71 minutes). In its penultimate action sequence, before the eponymous Schwarzenegger boards the sinister Rutger Hauer's submarine with only a lava gun to fight to the death, the two, each piloting a hijacked military submarine, trade shots with 'nuclear torpedoes' in a destructive underwater duel. The sequence proved highly popular, both in the theater and on video, and viewed over the 'internet' for decades to come. Tapes and disks of the sequence, often amateurishly translated, make up a significant portion of the world's known surviving video stock. The film itself reignited Schwarzenegger's flagging political career, and, largely based on near-100%-support and high voter turnout among 18-26 year old males, he went on to win another term in public office.
Current and former presidents were also rumored to be fans of the movie (with the notable exception of the aged and out of touch Carter), as well as senators and generals. Thus it was that legislation demanding the creation of the new weapons class was quickly introduced and passed in the US congress. The military only being too glad to tackle the project, the experimental Hauer1 was, despite large budget overruns, developed and tested within 6 years, to be followed by the more compact and reliable Hauer2s, which were also helicopter-mountable. They were widely deployed to the navy beginning in 2019, though their actual strategic value is not entirely clear. The uses behind the Hauer-class torpedos appear to have centered around a type of 'nuclear strafing' against the coastline of hostile nations. In later decades, it was apparently theorized that torpedo-equipped submarines could be dropped from orbit into alien seas, to attack their inhuman navies in their own waters. It is unknown whether this tactic was actually practiced.
Today's historians have suggested the devices' character suggest the calamitous nature of worldviews and attitudes among 21st century populations, attitudes which ultimately led to the Great Fire. It is not entirely clear whether the Hauer series played any physical role in that sequence of events, though some scholars believe the far more thorough and expansive destruction in western north america (as compared with east), may have been in response to some action on the part of trigger-happy pacific sub-commanders., who had been notorious ever since having 'almost nuked Fiji' in 2073.
