Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 15 hours ago

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The United States’ nuclear arsenal of over 5,200 warheads acts as the ultimate deterrent, but these weapons are aging, expensive, and can’t be tested, so how do we even know if they still work? Sophisticated simulation systems are in place, but there are worse problems, like nuclear weapons sometimes going missing or almost blowing up in a plane crash.

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