Reply To: Nuclear NYC

YoshevBer-“On top of all that, NYC possesses no major military installations or nuclear storage or arsenals.
(NJ does)

Countries like Russia don’t want to waste their weapons on measly body counts. They want to win, and to do that, they must destroy what threatens them most.”

-Body count probably is a factor, secondly aside for that, completely destroying big cities like NYC would be of great significance and greatly damage a country from ever recovering. If big cities werent important then threats to NYC and London wouldnt exist, im sure England doesnt hide their nukes under the London streets.

“Even if Russia would target NYC, it’s important to remember that the United States has a vast and comprehensive Nuclear Defense Strategy that includes interception missiles and early warning networks that would effectively defend a mass populated city like NYC or Los Angeles.”

-Not sure if you are aware but Russia has weapons such as Hypersonic missiles and others which the U.S has no match or defense for. Also trying to take down a barrage of nukes from Russia and who knows what other countries(China, Iran, North Korea etc.) at the same time would prove pretty challenging and have similar consequences.