>>507315575 (OP)FIrstly I don't even believe in nukes and secondly even if they were real they wouldn't completely destroy everything in NYC the way they allegedly destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Japanese towns were low lying, sprawling and mostly made out of wood.
A nuclear blast on the ground in nyc would be mostly contained by the millions of tons of concrete and steel. An air burst is much more likely and would basically just cast a cloud of radioactive dust on everything and cut electronics.
The dust can be washed away and the electronics and be turned back on / repaired.
It would be a catastrophe for sure but the city would be back to business as usual in a couple years and the USA would continue to function the same as before.