• Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    6 days ago

    Russia has thousands of nukes in its arsenal, and this is one person in one base.

    Even the US doesn’t have all its nukes well maintained, which is why they’ve been overhauling them for years.

    Personally I never subscribed to the “Russia has 0 nukes ready to go” theory because that’s just downright idiotic. Bare minimum you keep one well maintained so at the very least you can target whoever targeted you and try to hit their capital with a MIRV.

    Since no country really has a problem with taking what it wants from the people, it stands to reason that Russia would just squeeze its population a little tighter to keep as many nukes operational as possible.

    However, with that said I also don’t doubt a large percentage of it’s nuclear arsenal is basically useless.

    And anyone who knows anything about nukes can tell you it doesn’t matter if they have 10 or 1000, they could still kick off the nuclear apocalypse