interesting sketch. I’m not sure most people realize how quickly this event could escalate. They are buried in their bread and circuses lifestyles. It is my understanding that the Russians have violated the various nuclear treaties, and have continued to develop new and more reliable warheads and icbms while we have not. So our failure rate will be high, theirs will not. Interestingly enough, my family has devised a codeword and evacauation plan with a final destination point in-country in a remote area friendly to us. Just hope we have time to get there.
This sketch bears a similarity to a war comic I had in the late 50s which dealt with fighting a nuclear war. This is from that period as there is no modern skyline and the bombs are clearly Hiroshima sized A bombs. In the comic a similar image showed lower Manhattan with a huge crater below 14 street extending almost to Canal Street and river to river. Hadn’t thought about that comic for 55 years till I saw your sketch.Scared the hell out of me then and now.