“Has there ever been a time when Russian didn’t have US targets in place?”
Yes ... before 1949.
True. But while Russia may not have had nuclear US targets then, they certainly had the entire US as a target.
Via Communism. And looking at the Communist goals of 1963, they succeeded in many ways.
https://www.marxists.org/subject/art/literature/children/ref/gov/gov1.html