Rise of Asia after early WW3

[Neal]

In an Alas Babylon like scenario where China, India and Japan are the new powers and America is … damaged and Western Europe is ruined, how would Americans react, especially given the racist attitudes of much of the country towards “yellow” people?

In Mothers of Massive Resistance the author mentions that Southern white supremacists saw decolonization as a threat because nonwhite nations would be a majority in the UN, and they raised the specter of a Colored-Communist coalition to destroy “White Christian civilization” through the UN.

 

[Neal]

There is the possibility the reaction of the Baby Boomers to 50s conventionalism is still there so we get moral panics over “Oriental paganism” (India, Japan) and OTL Evangelical discourse on Chinese Christians decades earlier

 

[Delta Force]

It seems likely that Japan and the PRC would both be targeted during a nuclear exchange in the early 1960s. The Soviets would want to hit Japan due to its status as a major military staging area for the United States, and the RoK and the Philippines would likely be targeted as well for the same reason. The United States would target the PRC because early Cold War planning didn't distinguish between the Soviet and Communist Chinese blocks at the time, it wasn't until President Kennedy inquired about it that war plans involving strikes against just one of the blocks were developed.

 

[Neal]

It seems likely that Japan and the PRC would both be targeted during a nuclear exchange in the early 1960s. The Soviets would want to hit Japan due to its status as a major military staging area for the United States, and the RoK and the Philippines would likely be targeted as well for the same reason. The United States would target the PRC because early Cold War planning didn't distinguish between the Soviet and Communist Chinese blocks at the time, it wasn't until President Kennedy inquired about it that war plans involving strikes against just one of the blocks were developed.

Alas Babylon’s War takes place in the late 50s, so that is the range I am asking about

 

[rfmcdonald]

In that scenario, then, unless Eisenhower or someone broke war plans down, East Asia will be wrecked. South and Southeast Asia will likely be relatively intact, and I think Latin America and still-colonized Africa will also be spared