The Soviet Union's Interest
Obviously, having their greatest rival in a civil war the Soviet Union wishes to take advantage of the situation. On August 13, 1958, the Soviet Union dropped three nuclear bombs on the United States. At 0057 Eastern Daylight Time, the Soviet Union dropped there first bomb, a 60 kiloton, on Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, directly on top of Independence Hall. The next bomb, at 0244 Eastern Daylight Time, hit on Wall Street, New York City, New York. The final bomb was dropped on Martinsburg, West Virginia a small town 60 miles outside of Washington, D.C. at 0459 Eastern Daylight Time. The Soviet bomber missed Washington, because the city was on a blackout orders.
All hell broke loose. President Nixon was evacuated to a small town in North Dakota. You may think that racial violence would go into extreme levels, but it doesn't. Actually, it stops. The country needs to present itself as a unified front.
The Soviet Union get's 4 of it's own little presents. Four bombers left from an airbase at 2121 Moscow Time. The first bomb, dropped over Leningrad at 0034 Moscow Time, weighed 3 kilotons more than the Soviet bombs. The second dropped on Moscow two minutes later weighed 70 kt. The last two bombs dropped on both Novgorod and Stalingrad at 0100 Moscow Time also weighed 63 kt.
On August 14, President Nixon made a speech saying the no one anywhere had heard from the Soviet Union until that morning. A report said that Khruschev, and almost all Soviet leaders were dead. Ethnic and tribal warfare had already started, and Armenia had already declared independence. He famously said on this day "December 7, 1941 was a day that shall live in infamy, but August 13, 1958 should live in the hearts and souls of all Americans- those young and old, man and woman, black and white, that America can always hold it's own. And that we can always strike back."