I think the threat of nuclear war is where we're going. The primary use of nukes is as a terror weapon against Joe public, not as a military weapon and there's a huge question mark hangs over how much of the world's nuclear arsenal is real and functional. If the MIC can charge billions of $$$ to create nukes, and hundreds of millions of $$$ to service them, knowing that they're never going to be used in anger, why make nukes at all? The name of the game is profit and there's a lot more profit to be made in creating and servicing ordinary warheads that are labelled as nukes, than there is in creating and servicing actual nukes. The same rules do not necessarily apply in Russia.