[chessplayer]

Russia and China don’t need thousands or hundreds of nukes. Just one would be sufficient to completely destroy this country.

[GonzoGOP]

Russia and China don’t need thousands or hundreds of nukes. Just one would be sufficient to completely destroy this country.

Yes, but an EMP needs to be launched on a rocket. A rocket gives you a launch point. A launch point gives you a target. And EMP doesn't do a darn thing to a submerged sub. So while one EMP will wreck the US economy, a hundred or so Trident II D5 missiles are going to wreck the whole day of whoever launched it.