Just as an aside, Texas got 20% of the raw megatonnage...and that's without counting the Robison and Lemont "TX" strikes.
Simulated blast/thermal casualties using 1997 population numbers:
Code:
Row Labels Sum of DEAD Sum of INJURED
AK 56,458 63,775
AR 17,068 4,804
CA 2,351,092 3,959,548
CO 80,312 212,910
D.C. 154,505 209,690
DE 29,978 72,862
FL 78,144 155,504
GA 96,106 113,808
HA 142,806 173,417
IL 161,965 382,009
IN 292,938 687,750
KS 74,068 128,815
KY 18,108 31,010
LA 317,448 434,875
MD 73,376 196,922
MI 3,084 2,312
MO 70,093 124,063
MS 33,175 29,282
MT 22,008 22,743
ND 13,808 1,490
NE 128,254 157,453
NJ 1,190,951 2,482,863
OH 239,258 395,548
OK 85,812 102,746
ON 227,526 248,054
PA 394,571 1,337,164
SC 6,553 34,633
TX 1,423,363 2,088,855
VA 438,193 646,737
WA 16,691 25,812
WY 26,419 23,055
Grand Total 8,264,131 14,550,509
Sometime this annum I hope to have fallout casualties modeled with a decent fallout model (decent means better than the quick and dirty elliptical WSEG-10 algo used by NukeMapTools) capable of producing a nice fallout map as well.
The ON casualties are ONLY the Windsor Ontario attack, and all of those are actually Michigan, US casualties (I don't have gridded population data for Canada added to the population database), so obviously MI is grossly undercounted in the above pivot table.
Howling Wilderness states the population of the United States was reduced to 68% of it's prewar level by Jan 1 of 1999, or about 87 million dead after 13 months. If we use a rule of thumb and say half of the injured in the above table died from their injuries, and throw in another 5 million deaths from fallout, that gets you to ~20 million dead, so you need to fill in another ~67 million dead due to famine, disease, and civil unrest through 1999.
And then another 50 million dead through June of 2000. That's a lot of narrative writing to fill in the handwaving details that GDW left to the referee (or Chico in this case).
And if you go with the Howling Wilderness bleakness, another 100 million dead once the drought induced famine winds it's course, landing you at ~34 million survivors by 2002-2003 timeframe.
As an aside, I think the drought should be retconned into something a little more milder than killing off 75% of remaining population. The severity of the drought simply is not realistic given the size and water diversity in the United States (the US has a more reliable and redundant agriculture water structure at the national level than just about any other country, ESPECIALLY in the Deep South, where - even if you turned off the rain for a year or two, there's enough ground water able to be tapped to sustain subsistence agriculture for the half-sized surviving population.