Originally Posted by
pasta
And that's not even considering the components that were sold to finance yachts, stored incorrectly, built on the cheap, or only ever existed on paper.
Of course, if they really are stupid enough to use a nuclear weapon (and my uneducated impression is that they're not) they only need one that works...
Yes, but the corollary is, unless they are willing to launch all their missiles in one Armageddon attack, they have to be absolutely certain that the one they do use does work.