This supposes that there will be an incoming missile. There will be dozens. If not hundreds. Quoting Laz..."We are so screwed."
It occurred to me that there wasn't a missile at all, that it was a phantom VR missile created by malevolent hackers who were targeting multiple nations at once because other unnamed nations were scrambling their resources the same way the US was scrambling ours.
The ending is very ambiguous. I wasn't sure if Chicago had been nuked or not.
Laz the wise. ๐คฏ