Not disagreeing with you, just correcting a slight point... the Russians *say* they have 6,300 nukes. Which would require consistent, extensive annual maintenance and costs to maintain... Nukes are not like conventional bombs that can sit in a warehouse for decades.

Point being, we don't know how many functioning nukes they have, but it's some small fraction of that. Still enough to cause impressive damage. If they haven't been maintaining everything else, it's not like their excessive inventory of nukes have had special treatment, especially since their intention is not to be used in the first place, but just to "exist" as a deterrent. And then there's all the Vlads injecting corruption into the mix.

If the world starts to end, I want to start a pool on how many viable nukes they have. I say... no more than 500.