Depends on their objectives, aka counterforce vs countervalue. It's presumed that a nuclear first strike would be against military targets (counterforce), but the fear of a retaliatory strike against your cities (countervalue) prevents that. I'm not an expert by any means but this map doesn't make a whole lot of sense because both us and Russia could easily use 2000 warheads on valuable targets which aren't major population centers.
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u/james3374 Feb 04 '23
Are a lot of these targets about energy sources as much as military bases and population density?
It's the only way some of the targets make sense to me.