Well, for example, one MIRV’d SLBM from our submarines could destroy and kill pretty much everyone in North Korea. As a matter of fact, that would probably be overkill, to say the least. One missile. How many of those are typically deployed? Or we could destroy them with less cruise missiles than Trump fired at Syria. Or a handful of bombers. Or other weapons that I cannot discuss.
Oh yeah, the Minuteman with a cone full of W88s is a massive destruction machine. It could take out a good 500km x 60km stretch of earth. A submarine full of them, just wow. Nukes are so amazing that even people that think they understand the power of a nuke are far, far underestimating the power that can be unleashed. It’s just like imagining the distance across the universe. It’s almost unfathomable and impossible to put into terms that we can easily identify with.