Supreme Power
Nuke is introduced as Mr. Al Gaines, a young, severely depressed man living underground in a fallout shelter alone because his body emits high levels of radiation he cannot control. He is near invulnerable, can fly, and apparently superhumanly strong. General Alexander offers him a suit that will control his radiation output in return for fighting Hyperion, whom General Alexander directs the blame for his condition.
In a fight with Hyperion the combination of Hyperion's eye-beams, Nuke's radiation blast, and Arcanna's quantum alterations creates a brief and unexplainable skip in reality that sends Gaines, Arcanna Jones, Dr. Emil Burbank and Raleigh Lund two years into the future. An off-hand remark noted that Doctor Spectrum will kill Nuke at some point.
Nuke has joined the government's Squadron Supreme. During a session in which all the Squadron members were asked to fill out information about themselves, Nuke's parents were revealed deceased. In the first mission he is high up in the sky to be used as a tactical nuke, the person of last resort.
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