As you can see, Russia has nearly 3000 nuclear warheads. Even if some of them are non-operational, how many remaining ones are enough to inflict major damage?
How many of them work? I know Russia has thousands of warheads but how many of them are in working condition? How many of them are installed on working missilies? How many of them are stockpiled?
Its physically impossible for a country that has major problems maintaining its delivery platforms to have even half of that operational,
globalsecurity.org/org/news/2008/080919-russian-fleet.htm
There's more on how their submarines which are central to strategic scale nuclear delivery are rusting away, thats absolutely crucial equipment and if thats rusting it means that nuclear department in Russia has tragic funding, how many warheads can they actually launch? 500? 900? Definitely not a lot and it takes a LOT of nukes to actually destroy a country the size of US, then there's France and UK with their naval bases and nuclear facilities, American military bases worldwide and you're not left with lots of nukes for a target like Poland.
You will always have rich businesspeople coming forward and maintaining the stockpiles, Sokrates. Nukes are bargaining chips. Iran will maybe pick some up ;) ;)
Then tell me why dont they maintain Russias delivery systems or their entire navy and military?