The Soviets had and the Russians still have anti-ICBM missiles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-35_anti-ballistic_missile_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A

The Soviets had and the Russians still have anti-ICBM missiles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-35_anti-ballistic_missile_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-35_anti-ballistic_missile_sy... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-135_anti-ballistic_missile_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-135_anti-ballistic_missile_s... Killer satellites were developed starting in the 60s and deployed operationally in 1991. It seems reasonable to think that some pre-operational capability might have existed in 1988: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/is.html http://www.russianspaceweb.com/is.html I'm not sure where the nuke satellites and lasers came from. When it comes to answering the question of "what would a post-war world look like?" the only significant system out of these is the nuke satellites causing an EMP. That could (and probably would) have been just as easily done with standard ICBMs so I don't think it changes the answer very much.