I can't really debate the ease of maintaining nuclear weapons with you–our impressions are different, it would be great to find some reliable sources to objectively judge those impressions against, but I don't know of any, unless you do.

> Russia claims to have a huge stockpile, but their PIB is at the level of Spain (that has like 40% of russia's population).

I was confused by this–what is PIB? Then I realised you are probably a French-speaker, and PIB means produit intérieur brut, which is the French equivalent to what we call in English, GDP.