RamscoopRaider
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I'm pretty sure I'm not, I vaguely remember mentions of one control node for every 10 silos somewhere, but Asnys is more likely to know than I, see his responseIn most Cold War stuff I've looked at silo to silo was never part of counterforce, only the two or three control center bases were targets. So I think you are incorrect.
The US ICBM force was designed to ride out a Soviet first strike, China's missiles at the time were inferior to the Soviets and they had much fewer
The US was also looking at ways of hardening the individual silo so they must have thought it was a concern
So either the US was hopelessly optimistic, or you do have to hit the silos, leaving plenty of warheads left
Edit: Wiki backs me up, there is 1 Missile alert facility for every 10 missiles that it controls, and each of the 5 in every squadron of 50 can launch all 50 in the squadron, so that's 45 targets just for ICBMs
So China can in no way destroy enough of the US nuclear forces to reduce the amount coming at them even assuming the US does not launch on warning
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