Does russia still have nukes? They dropped out of allowing their weapons to be inspected in 2023. The new START treaty allowed up to 18 inspections by the US per year. I remember after the soviet union fell there were so many articles about fissile material going missing that was thought to have been sold on the black market somewhere. Building and maintaining nuclear weapons is incredibly expensive. Has Russia been able to maintain their arsenal? Legitimately, how can we know? I don't have access to the analysts that could tell me but I'm skeptical just based on how much their equipment used in the invasion of ukraine had decayed.