User blog comment:Luke perry/world war 3/@comment-32656-20130710080235/@comment-32656-20130711084855

"lose-lose" is still a draw.

The number of nukes, after the 1950s and first couple years of the 1960s, was slightly in favor of the Soviets, but at the numbers in question, it is more or less a "wash." After a certain number, any more nukes are kinda irrelevant.

Really, when it comes to inhabited areas, the two nations aren't very different with regards to population density. You've got to remember just how much of the USSR was uninhabited, or nearly so.