[Southack]

"What do you think would deteriorate quickly? The explosive used for the implosion? (Nope) The electronics that sets the detonators off? (Nope) The detonators? (Nope)"

Incorrect. The Russians had to steal British RDX to get their nukes to work, as RDX is one of the few conventional explosives that can survive radiation long enough to take a bomb from the lab into the field.

Electronics are fried by radiation, too...as are electric wires.

[DAC21]

"Incorrect. The Russians had to steal British RDX to get their nukes to work, as RDX is one of the few conventional explosives that can survive radiation long enough to take a bomb from the lab into the field. Electronics are fried by radiation, too...as are electric wires"

I saw a so called expert on these suitcase nukes a year or so back and he said about the same thing. No way if these bombs still exist has the necessary preventive maintenance been done to make them operative

[Wonder Warthog]

"Electronics are fried by radiation, too...as are electric wires."

Nope. The chips of the electronics might be fried, but the wires won't be affected--though the plastic insulation might get brittle and possibly crack when moved.