Reddit reviews On Thermonuclear War.

Well - horrible as it is to contemplate it, you CAN actually fight and win a nuclear war with a nuclear-armed opponent so long as you're prepared to absorb some casualties. All-out global thermonuclear warfare doesn't kill everyone nor hit every place on earth.

On thermonuclear war by Kerman Kahn and The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy by Lawrence Freedman will take you through the mechanics. I thoroughly recommend them both - they make fantastic reading (although the second is the more readable of the two).

Link to Amazon. According to one reviewer, it's rumored that Kubrick based the Dr. Strangelove character on Herman Kahn.

Man, the Cold War was such a weird era to grow up in, although this one is a real doozy, too.