the US got hit very hard if all you use is Howling Willdnerness - I wouldnt call the amount of nuke detonations we took to be lightly hit
It was a major hit that was more than enough to cause the breakdown in society that affected the US - remember the Soviets were not trying to have a general all out exchange - hitting a lot more US targets would have defintiely led to the US emptying their silos at the Soviets and basically the end of civilization worlwide
thats why they didnt nuke NYC directly or Chicago or LA or Philly - they hit the oil refineries not the city centers - even in DC they went for specific targets for the nukes -
look at the modules - no nukes in Boston, no nukes in NYC itself, no nukes in Chicago, no nukes in Miami -
as for the rest of the world - Poland, Korea, China, Germany,Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and certain parts of the Soviet Union took one hell of a beating with tactical nukes because they were battlefields pure and simple - the US, with the exception of Alaska and the Southwest wasnt - and Mexico didnt have any nukes to use on us
that is why we were hit more lightly than Europe or China in your words - but that "light" hit cost the US half its population - thats hardly a light hit or relatively unscathed
a country that gets decimated in the Roman days loses 10 percent of its population - we had that happen five times over - I dont call a 50 percent population hit being relatively unscathed
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