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> How so? You can in principle store a nuke in anything with a roof so you need quite silly numbers before before storage space places any important geographica
by xur17 8y ago
> How so? You can in principle store a nuke in anything with a roof so you need quite silly numbers before before storage space places any important geographical constraints.
Because countries monitor their enemies. If Russia publishes that they have 50 nukes, and we know of 5 locations that each have what we estimate to be 10 nukes, we can be pretty confident that we know of all of their storage locations.
- SiempreViernes 8y agoYou need five reliable estimates, which a total doesn't give you. In any case, if you have that sort of access to count the nukes in program that small it is simply not plausible that you wouldn't know of all the bases anyway.