>>Scenario 1. A 10 Mega ton nuclear device is placed in a panel truck and parked in downtown Manhattan. It has a timer to go off in 60 minutes. The device is detonated. Manhattan and New York City are destroyed. Who do you retaliate against?
>>
>>Scenario 2. A 100 Mega ton device is placed in a water tight container, placed on a ship and headed for San Francisco (my home town). About 30 miles off of the coast of San Francisco, it is dropped onto the Pacific Shelf, which is very deep. A timer is set for six months and the bomb explodes on time.
>>
>>A wave of water 1200 feet rises from the ocean traveling at 120 miles per hour. It hits San Francisco and wipes out the entire Bay Area. Who do you retaliate against?
>
>The authors of the scenario, of course. Who are US military officials, if I got your story right.

That you did.