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Is it though? Russian conventional army has clearly been devastated by corruption and bad administration, as the generals and staff didn't anticipate that it would actually be used in a real all-out war. What makes you think that nuclear forces are in better shape?




There's a significant chance their nuclear weapons are in absolute shambles, but who wants to call that bluff?

Additionally, even if their nuclear forces are in shambles, it really only takes a single launch to set off nuclear war. It's not like their entire nuclear force needs to function in order for the world to see a very bad outcome.


> Additionally, even if their nuclear forces are in shambles, it really only takes a single launch to set off nuclear war.

Not really - a single launch order has to be communicated and obeyed. No one single person can launch it.

Then where is it launched to ? Uninhabited area, high altitude or a population center of a non-nuclear power?

You think Russia is cancelled now - imagine after firing off a nuclear weapon - China’s existence would be at risk too

Although we’d be so much closer to nuclear war there are still a few degree’s left.


I agree.

When I say "shambles" I don't mean "0% functional, can't even launch a missile."

The system would have to be minimally functional to at least launch something. But at that point, even if the warhead is a dud or the rocket explodes immediately after launch, or goes off target, etc - the genie is well and truly out of the bottle.


Search Bulava / Topol tests 201x, RU test fires ICBMs successfully every year. Reporting of current RU incompetence doesn't suggest anything deficient with their rocketry functionality except not much missiles were used, and a few precision strikes on runways were consistently off course by several meters and missed the runway, indicating user error. Several meters doesn't matter with nukes.




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