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Hmmm U-238 can absorb neutrons and turn into something else.. it just isn't itself going to start something the way U-235 will.

Obligatory cartoon - for some people somewhere this applies:

At the height of the Cold War, the USA and the USSR each had around 10,000 warheads ready to go. That's more than enough to turn the other side to slag with plenty left over for anyone else. Way more than enough. We are talking "kill the whole world several times over" arsenal levels. I...

I know this. The joke here is that they emerge to find the world now being ruled by the country that they overlooked.

It's the late 1980's, and rather than go quietly into the good night, the Soviet leadership have decided to take the whole world down with them! They let fly with the missiles, and retire into their underground bunkers. After a few years they come back out, only to find that... civilization on...