Oh I am not doubting that they couldnt lay on that attack - but thats a lot of overkill to use that many warheads when two of the attack pts are overlapping - in fact if they came in close to each other in time the detonation of one warhead might have taken out the other one before it detonated.
Using the two 1 MT plus warheads as they did though - that's a city killer mission, not the "we are trying to avoid an all-out exchange" mission
Its one thing to use the big ones on ICBM fields or isolated targets - its another to have it basically go off right in the center of a major population area.
Remember the whole purpose was to avoid escalation to an all out exchange by not busting cities (with DC and Moscow being the big exceptions) - that kind of nuke used on LA would have been about the dumbest move possible in that situation.
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