Of all those nukes, about 50% just wouldn’t respond if launched. They’d just sit there. Poor maintenance, some base commander in the past 6 decades sold the payload or other gear, they’ve never been tested or updated, they’ve been stripped for scrap metal, etc.
Of the other 30%, half of those might detonate in the silos, which would be hilarious, and most of the rest would probably flame out in flight, and crash unpredictably. A few might actually fly properly, but not many.
Call his bluff, and let him launch. If he does, whether they fly or not, bomb Moscow into the stone age (conventional bombs, he’d probably irradiate his own country by then anyway, with their garbage bombs), take over the entire nation and let the UN manage it for a while, and hunt down Putin and his fortune.
Of all those nukes, about 50% just wouldn’t respond if launched. They’d just sit there. Poor maintenance, some base commander in the past 6 decades sold the payload or other gear, they’ve never been tested or updated, they’ve been stripped for scrap metal, etc.
Of the other 30%, half of those might detonate in the silos, which would be hilarious, and most of the rest would probably flame out in flight, and crash unpredictably. A few might actually fly properly, but not many.
Call his bluff, and let him launch. If he does, whether they fly or not, bomb Moscow into the stone age (conventional bombs, he’d probably irradiate his own country by then anyway, with their garbage bombs), take over the entire nation and let the UN manage it for a while, and hunt down Putin and his fortune.