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Wired literally has a quote from someone competent who says exactly what I said:

"Provided you make the effort to maintain warheads properly, though, they ought to work. “Russia has a robust nuclear capacity. They refurbish their warheads often,” says Amy Woolf, a US specialist in nuclear weapons policy. Schneider, too, is confident that Russia’s nukes are serviceable. It would be unwise to assume otherwise. "

I can't read the WSJ or NYT articles without subscription so I cannot comment on those.