WW3 1962 - Recovery Time?

How many years until the world reaches OTL 2017 standard of living?


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5: We have no idea HOW many bright boys in NORAD would go "Fuck it, there's no tomorrow" and do what we'd call stupid stuff (Genie at a inbound, volley fire all their Nike/hercs...)
and how many would wor

Soviet warheads were based off of 1st gen US designs.
Blunt body shapes like that bled off speed to the point where they would be hardly supersonic, unlike the later biconic shapes that could stay hypersonic till detonation altitude. Sp that's well within BOMARC or Nike interception capabilities
 
Of your US targets several will be overlapped with multiple nukes to ensure at least one gets through. I figure there's a one in three chance New York *or* DC survives and otherwise the largest surviving city is likely to become at least a de facto capitol. Maybe a new one is built on the Nebraska-Missouri border later, maybe not. Either way the US has distance and still has a lot of Depression-era survivors who know how to make do. Internet and computer technology is delayed but not irrevocably stopped, if anything the need for secure communications is reinforced and we become the worlds hi-tech factory fortress for a while afterwards.
 
Of your US targets several will be overlapped with multiple nukes to ensure at least one gets through. I figure there's a one in three chance New York *or* DC survives and otherwise the largest surviving city is likely to become at least a de facto capitol. Maybe a new one is built on the Nebraska-Missouri border later, maybe not. Either way the US has distance and still has a lot of Depression-era survivors who know how to make do. Internet and computer technology is delayed but not irrevocably stopped, if anything the need for secure communications is reinforced and we become the worlds hi-tech factory fortress for a while afterwards.

You realize that at best the most that get though is 50 total warheads/bombs? To the US? And that's being optimistic, with the Soviets launching a first strike? A Meeting engagement? anywhere from 0 to 15? US First strike quite possibly less than the 15 max?

With CEP (and that's roughly a 75% "it'll it in this radius") of 5km on the IBCMs? (Cuba's missiles and the bombers, account for 6, and the odds are that they're going to hit the US West coast, more or less, for the bombers, and Cuba's missiles might reach Belle Chase (New Orleans), at most. So.. 9 warheads max get though, out of 50 targets?

Do the math. It's very possible that the NYC and WDC get away. Add in the poster above, and bluntly? Again. Math. As for assuming WDC gets hit (Side note: We have a backup capital, and do in this time. It's called Denver.) we won't need a new capital. It'd take about a year, and WDC is back in business. Airbursts, and go see Hiroshima and Nagasaki for when they were reoccupied.

Do the math, do the research, and you see exactly why the Soviets folded in 1962. THEY knew everything we do now. I've said this before, I'll say it here: "The Russians did love their children."
 
You realize that at best the most that get though is 50 total warheads/bombs? To the US? And that's being optimistic, with the Soviets launching a first strike? A Meeting engagement? anywhere from 0 to 15? US First strike quite possibly less than the 15 max?

With CEP (and that's roughly a 75% "it'll it in this radius") of 5km on the IBCMs? (Cuba's missiles and the bombers, account for 6, and the odds are that they're going to hit the US West coast, more or less, for the bombers, and Cuba's missiles might reach Belle Chase (New Orleans), at most. So.. 9 warheads max get though, out of 50 targets?

Do the math. It's very possible that the NYC and WDC get away. Add in the poster above, and bluntly? Again. Math. As for assuming WDC gets hit (Side note: We have a backup capital, and do in this time. It's called Denver.) we won't need a new capital. It'd take about a year, and WDC is back in business. Airbursts, and go see Hiroshima and Nagasaki for when they were reoccupied.

Do the math, do the research, and you see exactly why the Soviets folded in 1962. THEY knew everything we do now. I've said this before, I'll say it here: "The Russians did love their children."

I did and do not disagree - I noted that of those Soviet weapons that do get to CONUS there may be multiple headed to the same target.
 
My response is: UNLIKEY.
considering the locations of Nike/Herc, and other systems?

I'd put better odds on Chicago, New Orleans (the Port and Belle Chase specifically), Tampa, Miami, SF, Pearl, Alaska, Guam getting hit over NYC/WDC. MUCH.
 

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Soviet warheads were based off of 1st gen US designs.
Blunt body shapes like that bled off speed to the point where they would be hardly supersonic, unlike the later biconic shapes that could stay hypersonic till detonation altitude. Sp that's well within BOMARC or Nike interception capabilities
That is very good to know and is useful for this thread.
I shall bookmark it.
 
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