There was a movie where Saddam threatened the west with nuclear weapons he developed from plans supplied by the CIA. The President stood up to Saddam's bluff, that we would attack him with nucs if he launched his nucs. Saddam launched and we launched. With Saddam on the phone, the President informed him that the plans he got wouldn't work as Saddam's warhead failed to go off, while ours, with 50 years of testing, did and there was a disconnect in Baghdad.
Now would you use those plans without testing them?
Has an ICBM ever been tested? In other words, has an ICBM ever been launched into space, over the pole and back down to earth?
Thanks for this. My point above was not applicable to you apparently.