(December 17, 2025 at 9:15 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(December 17, 2025 at 8:59 pm)Fireball Wrote: ^ I'd be concerned about nukes from Russia being used as a last resort. But maintaining the warheads is a highly skilled and labor-intensive task. Not to mention their current capability with ICBM boosters. I'd be more concerned about them repurposing the fissile material into dirty bombs.
Their last test was a pad-to-pad launch. Dirty bombs more likely, but thankfully much slower and much easier to intercept.
But as many nuclear threats they've made over the last four years, I think their actual "red line" is really a chalk line on dust. They know that Minuteman IIIs or Tritons actually work.
Little known fact, and classified at the time (I found out after that declassification, as I had no need to know at the time). When the USSR was crumbling, they sold the US a whole lot of enriched Uranium, as they were uncertain of control. Beyond that, I really have no comment.
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