by Miles Maresh
The Chinese failed to heed the warnings of Ryan and launched their own nuclear strikes from their submarines. Like the United States the Chinese had many nuclear submarines with their own weapons that could be launched from underwater. Because the ships were out at sea when the attacks hit China they were unaffected by the bombs and the targeted EMPs. These missiles did not have the range of land based missiles and they could only fly a short distance. They were not able to reach the areas where the U.S. was building the new cities. Nuclear strikes did hit Alaska, Western Canada and northern Washington State but after the EMPs almost no one was left in those areas. Ryan responded with nuclear strikes on several Chinese cities He did not want to cross the nuclear threshold but other countries had to know that we would respond with the force used on us. The Chinese knew their military had been severely depleted and were so busy trying to help the millions of citizens of affected areas and the other they reluctantly agreed to the terms imposed on them.