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Originally Posted by gamercube
I think it's one thing to discuss this as a theoritical question, but in a realistic scenario, I can't think of the US launching a first strike against Chinese nuclear installations. Because out of their arsenal of about 400 nukes, even if you miss 10, they could land on major US cities.
The US can't even bring itself to strike North Korea's or Pakistan's nuclear installations. I can't imagine you trying anything like that against China.
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I don't see nuclear war between the US and China as likely but you were talking about hitting Chinese launch sites... which we can do.
However most of China's deterrent is not capable of reaching us. All we absolutely have to take out are the ICBM's (we'd also want to sink the SSBN... however I don't think that has the range to hit the United States from the Chinese coastline).