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Massive Leak of Russian Nuclear Documents Exposes a Crumbling Security Apparatus (kyivinsider.com)

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[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

People keep bringing this up, and it's likely true that most of them dont work anymore, but there is a no way in hell they haven't kept up maintenance on a few.

One tenth of their deployed ones would be 170, and even 17 would be enough to start a nuclear war.

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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

The takeaway should be that they likely don't have the resources to back up their posturing, and are unlikely to try starting a nuclear war because of it (in theory).

Terrorist sizing those warheads don't have to back anything up, their job is done as soon as the bomb goes off.

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[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

90% chance the one they get is a dud, which is comforting.

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[–] Mihies@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

But even if they fire a dud, the receiving part will see an incoming ICBM and won't wait to check whether it's a dud out not.

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