[What if Whidbey base is taken out by a Chinese ICBM?]

By this logic, all conventional military bases can be taken out with ICBMs - both Russia and China have this capability.   So why "just Whidbey" - unless you have an agenda.

I don't think the US would be worrying about EW in this event - that is why the US has deployed ballistic submarines - everyone has a return address.

This is a really ridiculous "argument".