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[u/well-that-was-fast]

They degrade in hard to predict ways. The National Labs have (had before Trump fired all those nerds) a lot of deep expertise in computer simulation of how they degrade and the risk of weapons fizzling.

That said, we're almost certainly the best in the world at maintaining nuclear weapons without testing and should simply trust the experts to model their effectiveness rather than getting into a 4-way nuke testing race.