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Nordic neighbours release new advice on surviving war

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Mistletoe[dead post] ◴[18 Nov 24 16:53 UTC] No.42174256[source]▶
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mikewarot ◴[18 Nov 24 17:13 UTC] No.42174492[source]▶
Putin's successor is likely to be someone even less securely in power, and thus far less rational. I don't want to test our luck with what's left of the Soviet nuclear arsenal.
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rootusrootus ◴[18 Nov 24 17:37 UTC] No.42174777[source]▶
My greatest hope at this point is that much of the Soviet arsenal would fail to function at this point. That might be a pipe dream, but it's what I got.
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toomuchtodo ◴[18 Nov 24 18:00 UTC] No.42175005[source]▶
Can we not bribe enough Russians to dismantle what is left? Visas, fiat, whatever, spend to disable. We’ll come cleanup the warheads later.

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/what-happened-sovie...

https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/post-cold-war-worl...

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1. nostrademons ◴[18 Nov 24 18:13 UTC] No.42175155[source]▶
Don't need to bribe them, the free market takes care of that.

There are reports that much of the tritium in Russian nukes has been stolen and sold on the black market. When you have a culture that is basically a kleptocracy, few internal controls, and tritium prices of $30K/gram, it doesn't take a genius to figure out where the incentives lie.