Nuke (cat)

Nuke was the name of a cat owned by the Private military company Militaires Sans Frontières in late 1974.

Biography
Shortly after Paz Ortega Andrade arrived at Mother Base under the pretense of having nowhere to go due to her financial backer, Ramon Galvez Mena, aka Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zadornov of the KGB, being arrested in Nicaragua, a dispatch team from MSF got back from a mission and brought along with them a cat. Paz briefly witnessed this while scouting out the barracks, and noted that their behavior to the cat while feeding it made them look like schoolgirls. Although outwardly she agreed with them, she was actually disgusted with their behavior being unbecoming of hard soldiers. She then gave the cat the name "Nuke", justifying the name as being that "our compassion for living things can help prevent wars." She eventually fed Nuke a fish, noting it as a pathetic, feeble creature.

Some time later, after Paz went fishing with Chico and some soldiers, she fed it the fish she caught.

Behind the scenes
Nuke is a character mentioned in Paz's first two diary tapes in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes. The character is never actually seen in the game itself, although it was given a picture in the novelization for Peace Walker.