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>>14494835
>sea launch
That's what America's SSNs are for, we have several dozen of them. Russia and China only have a dozen ballistic missile submarines combined, and even fewer cruise missile submarines. America wipes the floor with Russia and China in every single aspect of submarine warfare.

Besides, preventing a first strike against America is the entire point. As for retaliatory strikes, I'd be more concerned about tactical warheads (plenty big to ruin a city..) smuggled into the country through other means. The KGB is alleged to have done this sort of thing in Europe during the cold war. (No firm proof, probably never will be, but there is testimony from defectors to this effect, and some KGB weapon caches were found in Germany and Switzerland based on intel from those defectors.)