[Chacotay]

This strikes me as a bit of a US circle jerk, and assumed that the Russians would get off zero nukes before launching. In reality, Russia has historically employed a "dead hand" safeguard, where any attack that cuts communication with nuclear forces instantly deploys the entire arsenal. The moment Russia even thinks that a strike has been launched (especially with tensions the way they are), they're gonna go full ham and wipe out as much as possible. You might catch a some of the silos before they launch, but it definitely won't be all. And if you're using US silos to take out airfields, you can be guaranteed that they won't have a single nuke left on the ground within the 30 minutes it takes land-based missiles to get there.

Regardless of how good or how far advanced the US is in terms of communication, technology, interoperability, etc. it'll never be a clean strike. And even a couple of missiles hitting the US mainland (especially any city) would be the worst disaster ever faced by the country.