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    Nukes vs GDP ratio by country [OC]
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    Nukes vs GDP ratio by country [OC]

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    2. PleaseGreaseTheL on

      But they’re totally properly maintained and in operational status, on Russia’s part, lol

      The USA’s budget only pays for half of our arsenal to be deployed and ready to launch (and only another fraction of that on hair-trigger alert). Russia has what, 10x as many, with 1/10th the budget, 10x the corruption, and 1/10th the attention to detail and maintenance on their military overall?

      People shouldn’t worry about nuclear apocalypse nowadays tbh

    3. Glapthorn on

      Interesting pattern. What is this pattern supposed to show? Higher the value the lower the ability of the nation to maintain the nukes they have? Or something to do with leverage on the national stage based on Nukes / GDP? (The higher the value the more the nation has to rely on their nukes for national leverage)

    4. SirKazum on

      How can you know how many nuclear warheads Israel “doesn’t” 😉 have? Don’t they *not* make any information on the matter available?

    5. Born-Enthusiasm-6321 on

      People forget that maintaining strategic forces is much more expensive than maintaining a conventional military. It’s extremely costly for a country as wealthy as the United States to maintain a strategic deterrent. Imagine how costly it is for countries with GDP’s fractions of the size of the United States. I wonder how long Russia will be able to keep a large strategic force operational. Eventually they will have to compromise some other part of their military or government spending especially as their fiscal issues become more clear.

    6. Timothy303 on

      Russia knows how weak their military is. Gotta have those nukes, as they are screwed without them.

    7. sir_jaybird on

      Geopolitically Russia has been punching well above its economic weight for a couple of decades. Without the (highly rusted) nuclear sabre it would be irrelevant.