Thats a bit like concluding from that a Tomahawk cruise missiles can be emergency-detonated via remote control this means it was the primary intention to design a weapon that can break off an attack it was laucnhed on. Or that a plane was designed with the primary purose of ejecting the pilot with a rocket seat.
All this is secondary, and backup. Not the project-leading idea. You do not buy a car so that you can wear seat-belts. You buy a car to drive from A to B. Seat-belts are just part of the deal.
And personally I found this differentiation between first and second strike weapons, defensive and offensive weapons, always misleadding and more aiming at the PR and propaganda side of things. There are just defensive and offensive decisions. And if i decide to strike the enemy first, then even a shield that I use to break the other's head turns into an offensive weapon.
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