>>510624018
The corrupt, alcoholic Russian generals in charge of the nuclear missiles honestly believed that their missiles never will be launched, and for years the West has been ringing the alarm that they have been selling dual use items on the black market. A good number of Russia's nukes will fail to launch because the hydrazine has been sold out of their propellant tanks. On others the nuclear warhead may arm but due to Soviet engineering and Russian-tier upkeep, some will probably detonate in their silos. Of the ones that do arm and launch, many will fail to reach their destination, or be meaconed off course, or have navigational failures and fall far short of their goal somewhere within Russian territory. 99% of the ones that make it to the West will be shot down by Western anti-missile systems because we've gotten really good at that. The ones that do arrive on target and make it past the defenses, some of them will fail to detonate. Russia would be damn lucky to have 2 target strikes in the first go round.
Meanwhile that strip of land between Moscow and Saint Petersburg would be saturated with the most powerful nuclear weapons the West has to offer. 15% of the population, 45% of the nation's wealth and over half the military's command and control structure will be vaporized in a matter of hours. For hundreds of years, Russians will be ashamed to say who they are and where they're from.
Russia's ancient Soviet nukes require thousands of kilos of the Tritium radioactive isotope. Tritium costs $34,000 per gram, so it is expensive to replace. It only has a half life 12.3 years, so every dozen years Moscow is spending a fortune on keeping its nukes viable. The absence of even basic Russian body armor, despite mass production, can only be attributed to Russian endemic corruption, and so there is no reason to expect that corruption will not affect everything, including the Russian nuclear arsenal.
