This reads almost like a carbon copy of that old Cuban Missile War timeline. Just like in the other timeline, this one is also sandbagging the U.S. response to being nuked. There's no way in hell they wouldn't have started using nukes after the first ships were destroyed by the nuclear torpedo...
U.S. won't be hit nowhere near as hard as Europe, USSR or Cuba. While we would have lost a couple of cities, the rest of the world would have been much worse off. In the early 60's, U.S. had an insane advantage over USSR when it comes to nuclear weapons and their delivery platforms. During this...