Nuclear weapons are 100% irrelevant to a potential civil war in the United States. It's not North vs. South, it's Red vs Blue, and the physical boundaries are i

Nuclear weapons are 100% irrelevant to a potential civil war in the United States. It's not North vs. South, it's Red vs Blue, and the physical boundaries are impossible to define - the ideologues are far too evenly distributed. Even in the deepest Red areas of the country, an airburst would murder 20-30% of your own side. That's a level of collateral damage that would be unacceptable to either side. Drones could be useful for more surgical actions, but they would be extremely reliant on accurate intelligence, which would be difficult to gather and verify in this type of theater of war. The failures of the US military to hold Afghanistan would be even more magnified at home. I don't think any of our traditional or modern military hardware would be particularly useful in an actual civil war.