Russia has threatened a city strike on the U.S. – first striking them prevents it.
Lockie ‘19 (Alex Lockie is a news editor and a military and foreign-policy reporter at Business Insider. "Russia threatened to vaporize US cities — here are the areas in the US most likely to be hit in a nuclear attack," Business Insider, 2-25-2019, https://www.businessinsider.com/likely-us-nuclear-targets-2017-5)(Shiv)
Russian state media on Sunday made a shocking threat, even by its own extreme standards, that detailed how Moscow would annihilate US citiesand areas after a nuclear treaty collapsed and put the Cold War rivals back in targeting mode. Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened a new Cuban Missile Crisis with deployments near the US's borders and to aim missiles at the cities that command armed forces — but Russia's media took it a step further by naming their new targets. Hyping up a new hypersonic nuclear-capable missile, Russian state TV on Sunday evening said the Pentagon, Camp David, Jim Creek Naval Radio Station in Washington, Fort Ritchie in Maryland, and McClellan Air Force Base in California, would be targets, according to Reuters.
