How many nukes does Russia have, really?

[Zardnaar]

This guy seems to think 500+ nukes are enough to waste all of N.A.T.O.

https://www.the-sun.com/news/478902...hief-threatens-west-with-nuclear-destruction/

He's probably right.

 

[Zelig]

Well the UK’s nuclear deterrent has about 120 deployed.

Nixonian madman theory

Nixon intervention saved China from Soviet nuclear attack

 

[Lexicus]

@Hygro do you want to answer the thread question by experiment? I don't

 

[Hygro]

Let's F' Go, Brandon!

 

[Henri Christophe]

Russia have enouth Nukes to end human's life

 

[Farm Boy]

Odds on Putin being The Great Filter?

 

[Clubber Lang]

Russian strategic nuclear forces -

https://russianforces.org/

 

[r16]

oh , now that comes up , 200 . None of the rest will go boom . True stuff , America knows .

 

[Kyriakos]

oh , now that comes up , 200 . None of the rest will go boom . True stuff , America knows .

One wonders how the same people who just refused to place soldiers as security against attack, now claim they are cool with nuclear war.

 

[Zardnaar]

One wonders how the same people who just refused to place soldiers as security against attack, now claim they are cool with nuclear war.

No one thought he would attack.

Well they kinda did but yeah.

 

[Hygro]

Russia have enouth Nukes to end human's life

You think none of their nuclear arsenal has decayed, and they've upkept all their remaining stockpile?

 

[amadeus]

https://thebulletin.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/nuclearnotebook-March2022-russia-table1.pdf

FAS says 1,588 under active deployment.

How many of them are functional? I would assume most. Rot-gut North Korea has bombs and much of their economy is based on meth cooking and printing fake foreign currency.

 

[Henri Christophe]

You think none of their nuclear arsenal has decayed, and they've upkept all their remaining stockpile?

I saw some videos, look like the arsenal is good enought to exterminate human life.
But about the main question, I guess Russia have around 6 thousand nukes

 

[Hygro]

I saw some videos, look like the arsenal is good enought to exterminate human life.
But about the main question, I guess Russia have around 6 thousand nukes

Ok, we know they have about 6 thousand nukes. However, nuclear weapons destroy themselves in storage. They require a lot of expertise, labor, and material to maintain. Russia hasn't been training very many replacement scientists at all. So the question is, how many of those bombs will work?

They could have all 6000. Or they could have 0, or anything in between.

 

[Ajidica]

You think none of their nuclear arsenal has decayed, and they've upkept all their remaining stockpile?

How many do you need to create horrifying destruction?

 

[Hygro]

https://thebulletin.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/nuclearnotebook-March2022-russia-table1.pdf

FAS says 1,588 under active deployment.

How many of them are functional? I would assume most. Rot-gut North Korea has bombs and much of their economy is based on meth cooking and printing fake foreign currency.

It crossed my mind as well, but maintaining one lab's worth of handful of fission bombs is going to be orders less complicated than the numerous sites of giant missiles holding bigger more complex fusion bombs.

 

[Hygro]

How many do you need to create horrifying destruction?

That was my question to everyone in the OP.

 

[Henri Christophe]

I just hope any nuclear army is used.
Because I'm sure their arsenal atomic is well prepared

 

[red_elk]

So the question is, how many of those bombs will work?

Nobody here can give credible answer. We will never know.. hopefully.

 

[Sarin]

Ok, we know they have about 6 thousand nukes. However, nuclear weapons destroy themselves in storage. They require a lot of expertise, labor, and material to maintain. Russia hasn't been training very many replacement scientists at all. So the question is, how many of those bombs will work?

They could have all 6000. Or they could have 0, or anything in between.

Even if they all fizzled on detonation, you're talking about awful lot of fissile material dispersed as "dirty bombs". The ecological consequences of that could be quite devastating too.