Hypothetically, if atomic bombs were fake news, what state would be the last to secede? A hawk on Russia would tell you that the evil empire "having" atomic bombs for seven consecutive decades of never using them the world's most powerful explosive in hostility through total collapse of empire and cold war and the Russian military support of Syria and the Russian military intervention in Ukraine and the Insurgency in the North Caucasus and The Russo-Georgian War and the Second Chechen War and The War of Dagestan and the First Chechen War and the Tajikistani Civil War and the East Prigorodny Conflict and the Transnistria War and War in Abkhazia and the Georgian Civil War and the Soviet–Afghan War and the Ethio-Somali War and the Angolan Civil War and the Eritrean War of Independence and the War of Attrition and the Zhenbao Island Incident and the Invasion of Czechoslovakia and the Hungarian Revolution and the Korean War and the First Indochina War and the Guerrilla war