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Originally posted by drunkmonkey
The effects of even 50 nuclear bombs landing on American soil would cripple America greatly but not destroy us. People over estimate the power of nuclear weapons. Yes, they are much more powerful than any weapon designed to date, but they cannot obliterate a million square miles of country. Plus, no nation on Earth has that much fire power. Our infrastructure is spread out all over this nation. Even if you destroyed DC, our government could continue to operate (hell, probably better. It would remove some of the fat  ) Our nuclear subs alone have more fire power than most nations.
Even in a crippled state, America would still be a force to be dealt with.
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50 nukes takes out our 50 largest cities if targeted to do so, which is probably close to half of our population, it would destroy our economy, for all practical puposes, for probably twenty years or more, but you are correct in saying the nation would survive.
You also are correct that our retalitory capability is a force to be delt with. We have the retalitory capability to destroy, for all practical purposes, at least a quarter of the countries on this earth simutaneously.
You are incorrect when you say no nation has that kind of fire power. The Ukraine (spelling) and Russia have in the thousands of nukes, and several other countries have in the hundreds of nukes.