Political consequences of Berlin Crisis of '61 gone hot w/in US?

If the Berlin crisis of '61 had been screwed up, what would have been the political consequences of this domestically w/in the US?
 
simpel:
Ussr & China East Europe would be today radioactive wasteland
West Europa devastated

the US President consider biggest Mass murder in History since Adolf Hitler
If he get in time to Site R, while Congress and Senate try to get there bunker
and survive the conflict as Soviets try to retaliate and get some hits on USA, like Washington D.C.

for first mouth after nuclear exchange it's each US state is "everyone for itself" during the chaos
Until the US Government is operational again
I think some surviving US representative will try impeach the US President for Mass murder
 
simpel:
Ussr & China East Europe would be today radioactive wasteland
West Europa devastated

the US President consider biggest Mass murder in History since Adolf Hitler
If he get in time to Site R, while Congress and Senate try to get there bunker
and survive the conflict as Soviets try to retaliate and get some hits on USA, like Washington D.C.

for first mouth after nuclear exchange it's each US state is "everyone for itself" during the chaos
Until the US Government is operational again
I think some surviving US representative will try impeach the US President for Mass murder

what were Russia's abilities to hit the US in 1961? They had no bases in Cuba and i think icbms were new at the time. How effective would their bomber fleet in attacking the continental US
 
what were Russia's abilities to hit the US in 1961? They had no bases in Cuba and i think icbms were new at the time. How effective would their bomber fleet in attacking the continental US

60 Million dead Americans was predicted in a SAC training film from 1957 that is available on YouTube, "The Power of Decision" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXqS9-8kzwc .

That assumed very few ICBM's were available, and they tended to miss by miles, literally. My understanding is that the actual Soviet ICBM fleet during the Cuban Crisis actually only ran to a couple of dozen and they would taken longer to get ready to fire than it would take B-52's to get to the missile sites and bomb them.

The missiles in Cuba were by some calculations the only missile force the Soviets could count on being able to hit American targets, being more reliable and/or faster to get ready.
 
The missiles in Cuba were by some calculations the only missile force the Soviets could count on being able to hit American targets, being more reliable and/or faster to get ready.
and the US had missile silos in Turkey. talk about a fear when there literally shouldn't be one
 
The level of political disintegration in the USA depends a great deal on how much of the political and military command structure survives the war, and exactly where the detonations are. I can't see the Americans as automatically denouncing the US president as "the greatest mass murderer of all times." It depends on the perception of what caused the war at best - if the USA makes an offer like the one it did OTL and the Russians say no, or it starts when a Soviet sub commander gets antsy and sinks a US ship, let alone using a nuke torpedo...
 
what were Russia's abilities to hit the US in 1961? They had no bases in Cuba and i think icbms were new at the time. How effective would their bomber fleet in attacking the continental US

only four R7 ICBM with chance of 50% to hit USA
They had handful of R-16 ICBM but not ready for service.

Chance of the Soviet Bomber fleet to get there Targets in US: ZERO
USA was paved with Nike Hercules missile and Air bases with interceptors

a little chance of success would have emerge Soviet subs launching R-12 Missile on US east coast
higher if they attacking with nuclear torpedo submerge

in constrast SAC would drop several dozen ICBM, MRBM, SRBM, follow by hundreds B-58, B-52, B-47 and Navy Bomber into communist Airspace
around 1000 Megaton would be "Deliver" on Target.
while US submarines are stand by in case the Soviet counterattack again to launch salvo of SLBM on them.

so in case of 1961 nuclear War
the USA could lose Washington D.C. or New York or Los Angeles or Chicago by R7 ICBM
or Washington D.C., New York by soviet Submarine attack include some Coast cites
around 10~20 millions deaths

While the East Block and USSR get wiped out and China heavy hit, with several hundert millions dead
and west Europa population is halved by nuclear attacks and radioactive fallout

some survivors will consider the US President as greatest Mass murder in History since Adolf Hitler
 
simpel:
Ussr & China East Europe would be today radioactive wasteland
West Europa devastated

the US President consider biggest Mass murder in History since Adolf Hitler
If he get in time to Site R, while Congress and Senate try to get there bunker
and survive the conflict as Soviets try to retaliate and get some hits on USA, like Washington D.C.

for first mouth after nuclear exchange it's each US state is "everyone for itself" during the chaos
Until the US Government is operational again
I think some surviving US representative will try impeach the US President for Mass murder

Or, you know, they blame the Soviets who fired the weapons at Western Europe and the US?
 
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