[alexander_busek]

[Even] If they [Russian nuclear-tipped missiles] might work they are epistemically dangerous.

epistemically

adverbial form of "epistemic:" relating to knowledge or to the degree of its validation.

Huh?!

Regards,

[AndyTheBear]

Means in this context and epistemic modality of possibility. For example as far as we know its possible.

This is different than say an ontological/metaphysical modality of possibility.

To illustrate the difference consider Goldbach's Conjecture (every even number greater than two is the sum of two prime numbers) which is not quite proven but suspected to be true by mathematicians. So one might be able to say, as far as we know it is false. However in an ontologica/metaphysical modality it is either false or it is true and it is not possible to be the other.