Cuban Missile crisis question.

I think it was the first What If?

As for what the US would get in the way of hits, it is ludicrous to think that the US wouldn't get hit at all. Yet it is often claimed, usually by Americans coincidently enough.

Does anyone claim that? After all the Russians do have a very small number of very inaccurate ICBMs that are more or less certain to reach the U.S. barring one or two failures.

However, it is certainly true that those are the only nukes highly likely to reach the U.S. assuming the IRBMs in Cuba are destroyed before they can take off. Any Russian bomber surviving American interceptors or Russian submarine sitting on the surface slowly fueling its missiles surviving the USN would need extraordinary luck.
 
"Resurrection Day" is worth a look on this subject, if perhaps not a totally accurate version of what might have happened. Small number of US cities destroyed, USSR nuked back into the Stone Age
 
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