Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-4843137-20140519231050/@comment-32656-20140721074922

...And I said, Spartian, that it had already been re-established. What you were actually referring too is just basically impossible. Many of the new states already have strong national identities in place, and some of them are extremely anti-US. Others have very large populations of Canadians. And yet others are on the other side of such states, geographically separated.

And, imo, the new USA is really not that strong. Not only are you going to have new states refusing to recognize it, either "period" or agreeing to be part of it, simply because of how it formed and/or the constitutional changes. With regards to military forces, of the new nations in the former US, I can think of three that are stronger in that regard, three that are probably in the same league as the new US, and a couple more that are not all that far behind. That is in addition, of course, to Victoria and Assiniboia controlling parts of the former USA - Victoria is stronger, and Assiniboia is only a bit weaker.

Remember, Guns, that atl they don't know what we know. The best info they would have would be that the US detected a first strike, and reacted accordingly - not that the Soviets responded to what they themselves thought was one.