From: naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
   On 2026-01-19, Lynn McGuire  wrote:   
      
   > I am horribly wondering if the tritium in Russia's ICBMs is still good.   
      
   Tritium has a civilian market.  *Glances at watch face*  So there's   
   incentive to syphon off tritium and sell it.  That said, as far as   
   I know, a tritium-boosted warhead will still explode without tritium,   
   it just has a lower yield.   
      
   There's the question how much the delivery systems have deteriorated,   
   e.g. whether the ICBMs would still make it out of the silo.  But   
   Russia has a lot of nuclear-capable delivery systems--all the   
   ballistic and cruise missles they shoot at Ukraine are nuclear-capable--   
   so I expect they would be able to field _some_ working ones.   
      
   > Russia has not tested a nuclear weapon since 1990.  I would very much   
   > not like seeing them testing a few of them on Berlin.   
      
   I live about 60 km downwind of Ramstein Air Base...   
      
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   Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
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