If US were to engage in open war with any other nuclear armed nation, fate of a few aircraft would be the least of our worries. Even if no nuke ever reached No

If US were to engage in open war with any other nuclear armed nation, fate of a few aircraft would be the least of our worries. Even if no nuke ever reached North America, the consequences will. Case in point is Fukushima radiation being detectable on the west coast. (http://www.whoi.edu/news-release/Fukushima-detection http://www.whoi.edu/news-release/Fukushima-detection) Granted those are trace amounts, but if a full scale nuclear war took place in Eurasia, we'd definitely would feel effects.