Here is what is disturbing. In the event of a nuclear attack, Joe and his family and staff will be whisked away to a safe place and feel no results of radiation. Meanwhile millions of Americans will suffer and die and lose it all because of Joe’s decision. Cities will be destroyed, food sources ruined, and water contaminated while Joe and Jill enjoy all the finer things in life in a cave at the bottom of a mountain guarded by men and women with weapons he was to deny regular Americans to won.
Maybe they will start with tactical nuclear weapons that don’t emit as much radiation. The problem is there isn’t really a battlefield to deploy that would be effective.
“Meanwhile millions of Americans will suffer and die”
Up to 90 million initially. That is in a full blown exchange.
Eventually, that number will rise to over half the population and that may not because of the radiation, but because of the civil unrest as a result of the initial attack.