{"id":3387,"date":"2023-04-13T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=3387"},"modified":"2023-04-11T18:33:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T22:33:16","slug":"does-russia-have-any-functional-nukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2023\/04\/does-russia-have-any-functional-nukes\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Russia Have Any Functional Nukes?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thunderf00t\u2014who I don’t always agree with or necessarily like\u2014makes an excellent point around the 18 minute mark<\/a> in this video. The jist of it is this: nuclear weapons are fragile as hell and expensive to maintain (to the tune of ~$1 million per year). If not properly cared for, they don’t kaBOOOOM!<\/em><\/strong>🤯 and Chernobyl us all to Mad Max land. Instead, they look perfectly fine and useful, but when you go to launch them, they fizzle like damp firecrackers (albeit damp firecrackers that can spread radiation; but still, while awful, a dirty bomb<\/a> is not<\/em><\/strong> a nuclear bomb<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia is a first-order corrupt kleptocracy, as demonstrated by their current Ukrainian misadventure. If they haven’t been maintaining the cheap and easy stuff (like tanks), then they sure as hell aren’t maintaining the expensive stuff that’s hard to spot check for compliance (like nukes).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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