"That said, Russia is not the country we are worried about."
On the contrary. Russia already knows we have a very solid defense against a Russian ICBM attack - 1) We know that Russians, unlike jihadis, are not suicidal. 2) We possess a very large arsenal of nuclear ICBM's with which we woulc counter-attack. Russia is developing these weapons so that, at the very least, there will exist the threat that they will sell them to some third party who would be less constrained by practical matters such as surviving a counter-attack, etc. There is no other reason to develop them other than to undermine U.S. efforts to secure itself against non-democratic rouge regimes hell-bent on obtaining WMD's. It is an ugly game that Pootie-Poot is playing.
Walk into a Moscow market on Friday afternoon, drop a vial of Ebola on the ground.
Will kill more in one weekend than a nuclear blast.
Wonder how that would work in Gaza?