I think any value this country has to offer re: resources, land etc. is offset by the fact that a conventional war on US soil is unwinnable. Think the 10 million hunting rifles, we would slaughter them, every blade of grass would have another sniper behind it. Then factor in the vitriolic hate for us that nobody wants to think about.... Americans aren't popular around the world. You thought the WTC attack brought it out, think of the partying from Beijing to Moscow to Capetown to... Paris. The world would LOVE to see us suffer. And they intend on doing so.
--it might be unwinnable if the infrastructure stayed intact. I live in the sticks, there's still whopper deliveries to the nearest supermarkets. the water systems here are all either municipal, depending on chemical deliveries and electricity. there is a two week max amount of that in crisis mode. private wells all take juice, most are too deep for getting the water out by handpump. Most of the backup power here is fuel driven with limited stores. And etc, etc. And this isd in the country with a lot more self reliance as the "norm" than in the cities or burbs. larger gardens, etc, but still--vulnerable. Much less than 1% of the population has any sort of realistic stores or planning for different scenarios. If "it" happens in the winter, count on 9/10ths of those ten million being ineffective within a few weeks, with a further lessening over the next few weeks as everything just slap runs out. there would still be a "lot" but not this huge figure.
. Now add in the possibility of disease outbreak, if "they" have come up with something that can go a month before any syumptoms, and is air-spreadable. Look what a dozen wussy letters in the mail did, now think what an actual large state sponsored coordinated attack would be like.
I would expect that to happen first, anyway, just by default, it makes strategic and tactical sense. the tradeoff in prewarning is worth it, if the lead time is enough, because no 'blame" can be assigned to a bioattack readily.
If you think like an attacker it's too scary, because it's sorta easy to pull off. Being the attacker as opposed to the defender you have so few obstaclers to overcome. You don't have to sweat the intel because you are the planner of the important intel. You don't have to guess or analyse the time factor. You don't have to develop countermeasures which are always more costly and difficult. On and on. The aggressive attack posture per se is unbalanced, but that doesn't mean it can't be hard felt if it hits.
Back to nukes, exactly what flavor nukes is russky land putting on their topols? Maybe that's part of the plan, use massive neutron bombs so that the resources would be available in a year after the first strike. If they hit us first with bios, especially blended and altered bios that are antibiotic resistant, then with nukes conventional for the military targets and neutron for the cities, that would be about it I would say, not a whole lotta healthy folks left over.