What if Cuban Misslie crist had gone hot

What normally happens with massive nuclear war. Extinction level die off for 80-90% of complex organisms at the least.
 
Let say nukes want flying during Cuban Missiles crist. What after effects been world wide.
Early 1960s? Neglecting potential nuclear winter the yanks suffer a couple of hits while Europe and Russia get mangled. Simply put despite US fears things were rather unbalanced in their favour: the sovs had a weak bomber force, a mere handful of early model ICBMs and IRBMs in Cuba; the yanks had a strong bomber force, were a litle behind in ICBM development but had IRBMs deployed from Turkey through to the UK.
 
When I was at Uni I calculated that the USSR could hit CONUS with about 340 warheads, a lot of those being peripheral targets because of the difficulty of bombers penetrating deep into the US. They could drill Europe with over 1000 bombers plus several hundred theatre missiles.

The US on the other hand had about 2000 bombers from B52 downwards that could strike the USSR, deep into the USSR if needed, On top of that they had over 100 ICBMs and about 200 theatre missiles that could reach deep into the Soviet heartland.

It was a very lopsided 'balance', however even this balance deterred Kennedy from making a first strike.
 

Nietzsche

Banned
Bombs fall, Hel puts the chairs on the tables, turns out the lights, drops the curtain and locks up after she's done. Fin.
 
Has someone written a decent TL on this before? I could've sworn I've seen one or two crop up on occasion.

The Cuban Missile War TL. I should note it's about 5-billion pages of replies after the timeline itself, though, and said discussion keeps getting added to even up to today, and it often pops up. At least I think it's all replies, since no one will ever answer when I ask if it is and the TL itself is done.
 
To be honest IMVHO that TL overestimates the number of warheads that the USSR could hit the USA with. IIRC the TL also has B-52s bombing Cuba, which I don't think is realistic.

IMVHO the US would get hurt by a few hits, the Cuban invasion force would probably get totally mangled by Soviet tac nukes on Cuba, Cuba would be nuked to bits, the USSR would get destroyed and Europe badly hurt, depending on how many Soviet IRBM and SRBM in Eastern Europe get fired.
 
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