We still need to be mindful that a submarine in the West Coast and a submarine in the East Coast can turn cities into radioactive rubble in 5 minutes. I think most people people do not know that.
Actually a Russian SSBN just out of port in the Barents Sea or the Sea of Okhotsk can turn all American cities into rubble, and have been able to since the 70s. They don’t need to patrol near the US.
Living between Newport and Crane in the midwest, we are not in a never land situation either.