Fun fact , in case you or others hadn ' t seen it before . Ghandi ' s insane lust for uncanny amounts of nuclear force in most civ games See , all but the first one , are an easter egginside joke from the developers . See , in the first Civ game , all world leaders had an aggression associated to them . The devs tried to match this number to the real world perception of these leaders , so while most came between 4 and 12 , Ghandi , being the ultimate pacifist , was given a rating of 1 . This worked as intended . up until the mid to late game , when the AI would research a policy that reduced their aggression value by 2 . For the 4 to 14 aggression crowd , this had the desired result , reducing their warmongering by a small amount . For Ghandi . well , back in those days , the aggression rating was on a scale of 1 to 255 , programming being what it was . Reducing 1 by 2 did not result in 1 , it resulted in 254 . Meaning that Ghandi would become orders of magnitude more warlike than even the most despicable world leaders . This usually happened about the same time the AI was unlocking nukes , so Ghandi would instantly go War Nuke happy . Later Civ games no longer have that integer problem , but as a reference to the original bug , even up to 5 i ' m not sure about 6 , Ghandi is more likely than any other civilization to employ his nuclear arsenal .