Brick Top, you are taking an extreme scenario from the crest of the Cold War and presenting it as if
1) still current, and
2) those ten thousand-plus targets would have been served with amazing effectiveness.
The number of ballistic warheads and delivery systems (counting boomers) is way down in today's world, and gravity bomb stocks are also no longer near what they were. For WW3 to be apocalyptic, plasma weapons just won't do any more. Add a powerful plague or three to the mix, and then yeah, maybe. cn