Depending on what happened in Europe, the US is still the toughest kid on the block, even with blood dripping out of it's nose...you should SEE the other guy!
The real question is damage done to our financial institutions. Reconstructing what records can be recovered, and the entire leadership of various corporations is going to take some time.
No on line records. Documents were preserved on Microfilm or hardcopy.
That doesn't necessarily mean anything in the grand scheme of things. In the time after the Bubonic Plague had ravaged Europe from 1347 on, the life for the survivors got better. Someone had to work abandoned farms and estates. It lead to an acceleration in what we today call the Rennaissance.
NO, but i expect that the Soviets might have. China was at this time becoming somewhat of a nusiance to them. As a side benefit, i look for them to cool their heels when they see what is left of 7th Fleet protecting Taiwan --The Republic of China, the recognised Chinese government in 1962.
The Chinese are also likely going to tell Kim Il Sung to settle the hell down, and consider the abject lesson of his former Soviet Allies. That's assuming that he didn't send his army south against a MUCH stronger than it was in 1950 ROK Army that's waiting on him to do just that. The presence of US troops would be a much stronger deterrent because of the recent education given to the world. Besides, those boys in 2nd Infantry Division (at the time, flagged as the 1st Cavalry Division) and 7th Infantry Division, and a lot of Zoomies are really pissed off and ready for a fight at the moment.
We're here, but under martial law for the forseeable immediate future. Whether or not there is a 1964 election? 6-5 and pick em.
i would imagine that the Kennedy will have some creative ideas on how to deal with a chaotic corporate situation. Some of the conspiracy theorists OTL had suggested that one of the reasons he was assassinated was because of issuing US Treasury Notes (as opposed to Federal Reserve Notes). That will likely to continue, since the FED is probably blown to hell and gone. i'd expect Eisenhower and Bradley, and any other surviving five star flag officers to be recalled to service, there's a lot of work to do in CONUS, and the military has the assets to do it. Besides, those guys, along with MacArthur are familiar with the difficulties of broken or damaged countries due to occupation of Europe and Japan after WWII --MacArthur lived in the Waldorf in NY during this time, and unless Kennedy evacuated him (Possible, they were close), he's now part of the fallout that's raining down on the glassed over rat infested rubble of what was NYC.
The chemical strike are not a big deal. In the 1960's almost every school child was vaccinated against smallpox, so that is ineffective.
We've been dealing with anthrax for a long time naturally occurring, it's not a mystery to us.
BTW Sarge, that would be a BIO attack. Chemical attack would be something like Nerve agents, blister agents, choking agents, etc.
The government would be controlling the media at this time. Kennedy doesn't need the citizens finding out about the bio attacks, and demanding the head of an already headless corpse.
Ever since their inception, the Soviet Union had regional and ethnic difficulties that they often had to suppress with an iron fist. i'd expect the surviving fragments would pull apart into regional governments based along ethnic lines. A much more chaotic version of what exists today.