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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ArishMell · 70-79, M

A few months ago a senior Russian army officer defected. He'd been punished by down-ranking and transfer to the Uraine front, for speaking out against an order illegal under international law to tell his subordinates to regard all Ukrainians - civilians not only service-men - as legitimate targets.

He warned us that Russia keeps all its weapons maintained. Remember that age alone is not necessarily the determinant of anything still working, provided it is looked after.