Originally Posted by
Flyhighfirst
The eggs in one basket problem is more of a size of the country problem. One Russian sub off the east coast could take out both simultaneously. It makes sense when you are talking about spreading out bases in Ohio, Florida and maybe Arizona. This country is too small to have a noticeable effect by spreading out bases. That extra cost could go towards more kit (it won’t of course, but it could).
But you are not taking into account the bigger picture, Russia looking at the satellite images of Doncaster would probably surmise that they had already nuked the place and move on to the next target.