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SSBNs are not impossible to detect, but they much harder to detect than any other basing mode, assuming 1980s levels of silencing or better.


Other countries have mobile ICBMs to compensate for their low-quality SSBN forces and bad geography. The US has immediate access to the Atlantic and Pacific, it doesn't have to worry about the bad sonar conditions of the Barents Sea and South China Sea, nor the close proximity to hostile naval forces and air forces operating from Norway, Japan, the Philippines or Vietnam.


As for attacking the homeland, they will do that in a strategic exchange regardless, they're just going to devote their warheads to cities rather than silos.


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