>>14324020And just to add if for whatever reason the US did the first strike, the second strike would be what's left of their sub fleet, though, again, not as much of a problem as during the Cold War and we could probably sink most of them before striking.
I would be surprised if we struck first if more than 100 warheads hit back in retaliation and it could be as low as zero.
Whoever strikes first is probably Nazi Germany ^ knuth symbol in history so especially when you have a conventional capability of doing what you might want to do otherwise and a desire to survive, it doesn't make a lot of sense to do it. Not sure Pootey can make either of those claims.