John Moore
2008-09-21 15:49:59
That the nukes no longer work (assuming they ever did) is unlikely. Primitive nukes (gun type U235 explosives) are trivial to maintain. The more efficient, and technically difficult implosion bombs are harder to build, but probably not that hard to maintain. Pakistan has a larger population than Russia, and plenty of educated engineers and physicists.
If the bombs once worked, they will likely still work.
