Even if a full exchange had occurred between the Soviet Union and the USA at the height of the Cold War with full nuclear arsenals, pre-treaty, most of the USA would be inhabitable.
The bulk of the damage would be where military installations were, the missile fields and large cities. There would be many cities within 100 miles of Washington DC, for example, who would be wondering what that flash was on the horizon. They wouldn’t be touched. Get even further into the US interior and, again, outside of larger metro areas getting hit, places would likewise be untouched. In some cases there would be entire states that would suffer little damage outside their main cities being destroyed.
Immediate post-strike fallout would be the main concern. This is why you’d hunker down for two to four weeks to allow the worst of it to decay. After that you’d have to pick up and learn to live in a world before electricity with no functioning industrial base for quite some time. That’s the hard part.
Nuclear exchanges would not destroy the planet. Would barely scratch it. The USA would be mostly livable albeit in very harsh and difficult ways afterwards. Just avoid the northeast, northwest, southern California and anywhere that a city was built next to a major military base. Portions of eastern Wyoming, southern Montana and western Nebraska you’d really want to avoid.
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