Any of these assume the Russians (or Chi-coms) are competent to actually get their birds in the air.... experience shows they largely aren't. Not to mention, we still have active missile defense systems.
Welcome to the Forum!Growing up in SE Texas during the Cold War, we were always worried about all the petrochemical targets we were surrounded by. I was always told by my dad and his ex-military buddies that refineries and whatnot wouldn't be targeted by an invading force like Russia or China as they would be of use, but would be destroyed via our own government in a last-ditch effort to make them unusable. Don't know how accurate that is, particularly in light of Putin's tactics in Ukraine lately. Another interesting tidbit, during the Cold War, a map of targets from USSR got leaked and it showed College Station as being a high value target. The story goes that it was because during WWII, some of the best military strategists were from A&M.