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."