> Russia has nukes that work Does it? Nominally, Russia has roughly the same number of nukes as the US. The US military budget is 700bn/yr and it spends 60bn

> Russia has nukes that work Does it? Nominally, Russia has roughly the same number of nukes as the US. The US military budget is 700bn/yr and it spends 60bn/yr in maintaining its nuclear weapons. So 60bn/yr is a good estimate for what it costs to maintain a US/Russia-sized nuclear weapons arsenal. Russia spends 60bn/yr on its military in _total_. However much of that goes into maintaining its nuclear arsenal is clearly not nearly enough. By all accounts Russia can't even maintain its trucks. Most likely the budget for nuclear maintenance is "disappearing" the same way that much state money disappears in Russia. Surely no on believes that Russia has been spending 60bn/yr since the 70s, when the last nuke was detonated. Russia no longer has nuclear weapons, you heard it here first.