Turkey & Nuclear Weapons

[Panther Al]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

From the three "official" timelines (V1, V2.0, & 2.2):
From Howling Wilderness:
It seems clear the strikes against continental US occurred at the tail end of the 1997 nuclear attacks. Everyone had probably gotten very used to reports of "yet another nuke somewhere not here" and become quite blasé about the whole thing (those not on the receiving end of them at least).
With an established policy of one warhead in retaliation for another, a few dozen missiles fired at the US would not have been enough to prompt a massive response.
We also know from the above quotes that there wasn't all that much of a civilian command structure left at this time. While in Europe the destruction was undoubtedly a direct result of conventional or nuclear weapons, in the US riots and general panic coupled by the draining of manpower for the front lines would have had a similar effect. With government and supporting organisations stripped in this way, a handful of nukes aimed at strategic locations would probably have been enough to at least time what survived over the edge and beyond recovery.

Note also that the attack didn't happen until the day after Thanksgiving, and it wasn't the first time longer range nukes had been used, it was just the first time that we know of nukes being used against the US homeland.

Not sure how well you know of Thanksgiving over here leg, but it's not, despite what the calendars say, a one day holiday. It always falls on a Thursday, and because of that, Friday is always taken off along with it to make for a long weekend. So for all intents and purposes, its a four day holiday - with Friday being the most dead to the world day of the bunch.