Unless you live in the dead center of a top 20 city in the U.S., you are more likely to get struck by lightning than to die from ANY effect of a nuclear weapon dropped on your city.

ANY EFFECT.

Nuclear weapons are fear mongering.

As with most media manipulation, they obfuscate the actuality of things.

An oversimplification of nuclear weapon technology is:

There's big uns
and there's small uns.

The small ones are delivered by ICBM as the name implies, INTERCONTINENTAL Ballistic (not steerable) Missile.

They are TINY.

The HUGE ones are delivered by nuclear bombers only.

A nuclear bomber cannot penetrate our air defenses.

Our ICBM countermeasures are bullshit, so if they did launch missiles at us, they will hit.

But as I said, they will only target population centers, which as you see from the voting maps will thoroughly deblue the U.S.

And if you don't live in a city center, an enemy country could dump their entire nuclear salvo on the U.S. and you STILL would have a better chance of getting struck by lightning than dying immediately.

In the case of a full dump, you will probably die from continued ionization, or starvation... but nuke bombs the kind that can make it here, are terribly weak.