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From what I've read about the state of US nuclear arsenal it's a question of how many of them will even launch to be honest. As I recall, last few tests were a failure.
iirc John Oliver talked about a particular missile silo which is so old the computers still use punched cards, and there is no soldier who is actually trained on those systems. The door of that same silo is also always open, because it broke and they don't know how to fix it
apparently that missile silo went out of commission in the 80s bc of the issue of modernization. now it's just a museum. it's the titan missile silo in green valley, arizona. i'm guessing oliver refered to that one