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1. By today's standards, how close the US coast would a Russian Sub driver try to get to launch nukes and achive maximum surprise with as little reaction time as possible from the US. In other words, total surprise.
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That's beyond my area of knowledge, sorry.
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2. How would the US react and deal with such a threat?
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Mutually Assured Destruction. I'm sure you've heard of the term - Nuke goes off from one side, all the nukes from the other sides go off. There have been talk of a measured nuclear response, but that's not likely if the russians are involved.
That's why in every worldwide conflict story that happens in the modern time, there's a reason why nobody shoots off a single nuke. See Red Storm Rising.
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3. What kinds of systems does the US have in place to fight off such an attack?
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At present time, a bunch of missiles to be shot back at whoever started it. There isn't, at this time, a functionning ABM system. That we know off, anyway.
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4. How would it be dealt with if the US had, say 30-60 minutes before any kind of MIRV seperation or impact?
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Once they'd know for sure who shot the missile, they'd shoot back. And everybody'd hide.
Duck and cover, like the turtle said.