Russia’s nuclear weapons: who is it hurting?

Today’s Russia can still fear the world because of its huge nuclear weapons.

According to the annual report of the Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), with January 2016 as the observation time node, there are a total of 15,395 nuclear warheads in the world. Among them, Russia ranks first with 7,290 nuclear warheads, 290 more than the second-ranked United States. Russia owns nearly 50% of the total number of nuclear warheads in the world.

With the continuous decline of Russia’s economy and the continuous degradation of its conventional military power, in the eyes of the world, the reason why it is regarded as a big country, some people also regard it as an ally that they can rely on. The main reason is that It lies in its huge nuclear arsenal; Russia’s military and political leaders, when encountering international conflicts, often take out nuclear weapons as a killer that threatens the civilized world.

This gives people a proper impression: nuclear weapons are Russia's major power weapon, which guarantees the status of a major power and national interests.

People with a little bit of thinking ability will not only have to ask questions at this time: Needless to say, the United States, the other nuclear countries, Britain, France, India, China, and the total economic output are several times that of Russia today. Technology, if they want, can they be no worse than Russia in nuclear arsenal?

Yes, why do all the major countries that want to face security, everyone is willing to let the Russians be champions, and even accept its simple and crude nuclear threats from time to time? Why don't people make more, come head-to-head with it, and also threaten Russia in return?

is really the whole world afraid of death, but the Russians are not afraid of death?

In fact, this is just a question of differences in their respective national defense concepts, rather than a question of ability. It depends on their understanding of differences: whether it is worth the money, whether it is willing to spend it or not.

We know that making nuclear weapons is very expensive. Poor countries like Cao County even need to tighten their belts.

But what many of us don't know is that not only the research and maintenance of atomic bombs cost money, but also the cost of maintaining and preserving atomic bombs. It is much more expensive than manufacturing it! As a kind of precision weapon, the

nuclear weapon has more than 1,000 various parts. These parts can be used effectively for a certain period of time. Therefore, these parts need regular maintenance and timely replacement. Moreover, there are many radioactive materials inside nuclear weapons. These radioactive materials also have a useful life and need to be replaced regularly.

Therefore, nuclear weapons are not manufactured once and for all. In terms of maintenance, a large amount of money is spent every year. Take the United States as an example. With the number of nuclear weapons owned by the United States, it costs hundreds of billions of yuan to maintain them every year; The U.S. government's nuclear weapons renewal program from 2015 to 2024 has a budget investment of up to 348 billion U.S. dollars!

Of course, it is impossible to find out how much the Russians, who are accustomed to regardless of the cost, spent on nuclear weapons, but it can be estimated with reference to the United States.

In fact, even if the capitalist American emperor is addicted to money, there has never been a US government that has a clear concept of the total cost of holding nuclear weapons. No one understands how much money is spent on it. !

Until 1998, the U.S. Department of Energy did a statistic: From 1945 to 1998, the United States spent $5.76 trillion in the development, testing, and maintenance of nuclear weapons in 43 years, an average of $35 billion per year. Calculate the cost of military readiness training.

$5.7 trillion! This is beyond what people can understand.

If you visualize this figure, you will discover how amazing it is-if the money is shared among individuals, it is equivalent to each American invested more than 20,000 US dollars; if one dollar bill (200 US dollars a Bundle thickness of 25.4 mm) as bricks, one by one, 5.7 trillion US dollars will be 739,117 kilometers long, which can be almost a round trip between the moon and the earth. If

is made of one-dollar bills into bricks, it can go around the earth's equator almost 105 times and build a wall as high as 2.7 meters. The number

exceeds the sum of the federal government's expenditures on education, training, employment and social services, as well as agriculture, natural resources, environment, basic science, space research, community and regional development, and many other aspects during the same period. It is not difficult to imagine how much social wealth was wasted in it!

is more than the number of US nuclear weaponsIn Russia with more extensive production and lower management efficiency, more social wealth will naturally be wasted. It is not difficult for us to understand why Russia, with its vast land and sparse population and abundant resources, has never let the people live. Live a good life. Buying bread requires long lines from time to time.

Russia’s nuclear weapons, before they were launched, had actual victims: Russian people!

has never used nuclear weapons in actual combat. Has it really improved the Russian national defense capabilities?

In a sense, nuclear weapons have made Russia lose the opportunity for new military reforms.

The past determines the present, and now determines the future! In fact, in the 1970s, when we were still intoxicated by the invincibility of the landmine warfare, the smart Russians also felt the breath of the military information technology revolution. The Soviet Chief of Staff Ogarkov proposed the reform of electronic technology. New ideas such as electronic warfare and precision warfare.

However, the Russians were ultimately unable to seize the opportunity for change. The reason is that the nuclear field occupies the main resources, and there is no excess resources that can be allocated to the field of change. At the same time, because this will inevitably lead to a decline in the status of nuclear power, it has also been strongly opposed by vested interests. According to the US Cold War strategy,

is constantly inducing the Soviet Union to develop more nuclear weapons strategically, and even proposes science fiction concepts such as Star Wars to induce the consumption of its national resources and win the strategic initiative. The suicide collapse of the Red Russian Empire also proved the consequences of greed for nuclear weapons.

Today’s Russians still adhere to the national inertia that sticks are heavier than bread. Nuclear weapons are naturally the scary sticks that are most valued; and nuclear weapons consume most of their defense expenses. Although it’s impossible, we assume that Russia’s efficiency in manufacturing and maintaining nuclear weapons is equivalent to that of the United States. Russia, which has a larger nuclear weapon than the United States, will also spend an average of 35 billion US dollars in maintenance costs. However, we can find from the Russian public data that Russia’s defense expenditure exceeded US$35 billion in only 10 years from 1995 to 2017. In 10 years, it did not exceed US$20 billion. The largest defense expenditure was In 2014, it reached 59.7 billion.

That is to say, even if the Russians make false reports on the number of nuclear weapons, most of its military expenditures need to be spent on serving their own atomic bombs. Otherwise, it will have to wait for its own atomic bomb to explode in its own home.

As early as 2017, the GDP of Guangdong Province was US$1.3385 billion, and Russia was US$1.4693 billion. Russia, the world's largest country in terms of land area, has a GDP only as much as Guangdong! With such an economic aggregate, how much money can Russia squeeze out to develop new and advanced weapons!

It is not difficult for us to understand why, from airplanes to missiles, almost all the fields of cutting-edge weapons, why the Russians are still eating what the Soviet Union did decades ago. The Red Square military parade every year, why the world can only see the antiques of World War II. The

thing does not stop there. No matter how much money was wasted, it belongs to the past. What's more, it also makes the Russians lose the future.

has a greater impact than money, it is people.

The Soviet Union developed nuclear weapons, leaving Russia without talent.

In the 1970s, the Soviet Union used 80% of scientific research funds, 80% of scientific research facilities and 80% of scientific research personnel for national defense. The Soviet Union used nuclear weapons as the basis and main body of national defense. Both money and people were occupied by the nuclear field. .

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a large number of national defense talents were lost. According to the reverse elimination rule of brain drain: excellent talents leave, and useless mediocre people stay.

Russia is losing key talents. Therefore, Western countries discovered that when an international conference was held in the 1960s, they could still meet Russia's talents with world influence. After the 1990s, they did not.

Today in Russia, young people regard studying abroad and emigrating to Europe and the United States as the highest goal of their lives. Where are the talents who can lead the future?

Today, Russia, burdened by nuclear weapons, is actually in a dilemma in the face of historical lessons!

does not maintain a nuclear arsenal. Today's conventional military strength, economic capability, and political influence are nothing, and it is completely degraded to be ignored and despised. This country, which is accustomed to swollen faces but also fat people, cannot accept this reality and cannot do it!

Unless it wants to commit suicide, in fact, the nuclear treasure that spends the main resources to maintain is an unusable burden.

to maintain nuclear powerThe facade is destined to continue to lag behind the development of modern military technology, so that new local tyrants like India, holding a lot of banknotes, will not pick out anything that can be seen from its arsenal.

Ancient Chinese saying: Only by virtue can carry things! The ideological and cultural civilization is not up to the level, and the material civilization achievements have become a scourge. Just like guns for primitive tribes in Africa.

Those who harm others will end up harming themselves!

For the civilized world where Russia is always threatened by nuclear weapons, the terrifying atomic bomb, in a certain sense, it has wiped out the evil minions, and it is not necessarily a bad thing.

What is amazing is that after 40 years of embracing modern civilization, the deeply slavic people within us, their low intelligence, but still can’t see the clear lessons of history, are still cutting off Russian-style brutal thinking. In this era, rants about a thousand eggs are trying to kidnap the nation and harm 1.4 billion Li people.

For decades, we have chosen a rational defense path wisely, using nuclear weapons only as a means of deterrence and counterattack. The rational allocation of resources has also contributed to the overall development of the country today. It should be said that this is a difference in national wisdom and civilization higher than that of Barbarians. However, the howling of a thousand eggs and wolves illustrates the fragility of intelligence and civilization in our society, and reminds everyone who wants to advance the progress of national civilization to be alert to the undercurrents of ignorant forces!

They have already harmed too many countries, they cannot be more!

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