[Mr. Silverback]

The US would return the favor...

I picked up a phrase, BTW, from some post-apocalyptic science fiction novel, either Emergence or War Day. After describing a limited Soviet first strike (in War Day they only launched at 3 cities), the narrator describes the American response: "We broke every window in the Soviet Union."

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

It must have been Emergence; War Day's description of the war was a lot more sober than that (it was given as an oral history by the former Assistant Secretary of Defense, who had been aboard NEACP during the war).