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Now, let's compare that to rockets that have been sitting on the launch pad for months on end and there are no time for checks, let alone double and tripple checks. How confident are you that those rockets would work as intended? There's a reason why retallitory nuclear strikes aim for nuclear missile silos that are supposed to be empty. When START II was signed, the Americans found out that 80% of the Soviet/Russian rockets would not work, mainly because of the lack of maintenance funding.
Let's add to something else. Only the Americans and the Russians maintain ready-to-launch nuclear weapons. Everyone else is recessed. However, the Americans maintain a 75-80% readiness while the Russians maintain a 25% readiness. It's damned expensive keeping nukes on a warfooting.
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The N5's nuclear weaponsneers had to be qualified. That means that they have to goto school, train, and then pass the test in order to qualify to deliver nuclear weapons. That kind of schooling, training, and testing can hardly be hidden.
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