The solid rocket fuel in them simply has a limited shelf life. The nuclear material has a limited shelf life. The older liquid fueled rockets have an even worse shelf life. The US and Russian are using off there rocket supply built in the cold war, not building huge supplies of new ones. It's going to be a issue in the future, as at some point America has to decide if it wants to build a crap load of new pointless ICBMs to replace these things.
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