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Even if they don't succeed, I'm quite sure there'll be a handful of loonies who try — and if they fail, simply use them as dirty bombs, "Something is better than nothing!" and all that. If anything, I wonder if rogue actors who realize that unmaintained nukes don't last might try to launch them...

Maybe for now, but as @Cherico said: Never underestimate human stupidity, especially in light of how we can only have so many close calls before someone fucks up for real. Even if most state actors today don't have the stomach for nuclear war, I think the off-chance some nukes go missing and...

But then, what about the fact each of them still has thousands of these, each one more destructive than Little Boy and Fatman were by varying degrees? You can't just look at how powerful individual bombs are; you also have to look at how powerful the entire arsenal is, since at the very least...