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However, because of nuclear missiles that can be launched from submarines (SLBMs) or mobile installations (the Soviet SS-20s[?]), the United States really never had a chance to win a nuclear war with the Soviet Union using the NUTS strategy.
The NUTS strategy was based on what Ken Wu[?] called an "American First Strike" capability.
The acronym itself is probably constructed as a joke on the insanity of nuclear war and the opposing strategy "MAD". This is what hackers would call a backronym.
To do:
Quotes:
"MAD is for the nuclear aristocracy and NUTS is for the nuclear proletariat"
"A NUTS postures lent credence to the idea of deterrence because it was believed that nuclear weapons deterred only if there was a possibility that they would be used."
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