I always wondered how much targeting of silos occurred. Or at least how they dealt with that.

MAD really seemed to require you unleash everything and generally if the others did you would be targeting a lot of empty silos in the middle of nowhere. At least those in the Midwest.

My grandfather was in the US army and participated in nuclear weapons testing throughout his later career. He said if war broke out with the Soviets that everyone should go sit on the roof and wait for the mushroom cloud to be sure not to survive.