Putting aside morals and such of nukes, the terrestrial ICBMs are totally unnecessary when subs already exist and are out in the oceans carrying warheads that can devastate any country on earth. Just scrap the dickwagging missiles and stick to the subs. But boomers love nothing else more than dickwagging, so, here we are.
And again, the entire premise is stupid, just saying how they take a stupid idea and exponentially make it stupider
Yes, but for example the ICBM project is currently so far overbudget and overtime that it's near the cancellation. Sure they will pump as much money as they can but the effect is unknown and rather dubious considering the long string of failures plaguing their R&D for last 2 decades. Same with the retrofitting - it's a country that had problem decomissioning their old nuclear aircraft carrier recently.
Imagine if a nuclear exchange happened, but none of the warheads went off because of some unforseen flaw from the material degradation that arises after sitting in a silo for thirty years.
All of this stuff makes me kind of hopeful that this is just projection about the US nuclear arsenal, and a huge chunk of their nukes are non-functional due to a lack of maintenance.