Isn't it a bitter irony that our best hope of the Russian nuclear arsenal is that it is as poorly maintained as its conventional? We're hoping that a madman with 30,000 nukes is bluffing with his incessant threats against non-nuclear states on the basis that they all might have rusted or been sold off to individual madmen. In a way, the venomous competence of the Cold War was the more comforting illusion.