Is it possible, and perhaps even likely, that most of the world's nuclear weapons don't even work?

But they're constantly discussed, because it keeps the ordinary shmuck in a state of perpetual fear, and will therefore be more malleable to propaganda.
I ask this question because I've come across quite a few documentaries, if one can call videos on YouTube "documentaries", that discuss the very real likelihood, based upon simple accounting and arithmetic, that most of Russia's nukes are duds.
For example, this one.

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SomeMichGuy · M

I think that the pressure & inability to keep up in the arms race (which helped sink the Soviet Union more quickly) HAD to have led to corners being cut, etc.

If old panels were not checked, maintained, upgraded...they probably quietly failed.

But the missiles themselves could also suffer the same fate; the life of components, connections, etc., depends on a lot of things, including the quality of the original components (likely poor) and the ambient conditions (likely all over the place since 1989, for silo-placed missiles).

Then is the fuel available / good? Will ignition work? Are the pathways along/around the exhaust still open?

vetguy1991 · 51-55, M

Well they haven't been tried in years

Khenpal1 · M

@vetguy1991 Out of 5000 nukes , Russia test 80-100 per year . Knowing if they work will take them next 50years.,

TheOneyouwerewarnedabout · 46-50, MVIP

Who’s got uranium one isotopes now..

That Will be the million dollar Q…

NK, Iran.. ?

Russia didn’t need it that’s for sure..

Elessar · 26-30, M

Even if most don't work those that do are enough to erase human society

And I'm pretty optimistic the American and Chinese arsenals won't have as many duds as the Russian one

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Elessar · 26-30, M

@Pambie I've responded to a laughing face with a laughing face. Same principle I'm defending for foreign politics: respond to military threats with stronger military threats

Pambie · 22-25, F

@Elessar

Yeah, you're free to bend 90° to Putin, Trump and Xi Jinping all you want. You can even jump in a plane and go to Russia and America and spread the verb, maybe you'll convince them to vote out the fascist

Until you're done the rest of us will continue to rearm.

You see, this right here is the problem; excessive belligerence caused by excessive levels of testosterone. How do people like Xi and Putin get to be in the position they're in in the first place? I know the answer to that, but do you? Can you guess?

Elessar · 26-30, M

@Pambie And you think passively waiting until they give you the Ukraine treatment is going to lower their testosterone?

Only thing those people respect is strength

Blind "pacifism" is the reason

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