“where they were to survive the nuclear winter to come out and eliminate any of the Soviet population that had survived our main nuclear attack.”
Pure James Bond silliness. No such thing was the goal. Try high value point targets like equipment depots, rail depots, airfields, transit routes into Germany, communications nodes, etc. And it wasn’t waiting out a “nuclear winter” which was pure fiction from Sagan anyway, and then striking back months later.
It was to be used very early, in the very beginning of a conventional European land war.
It was most assuredly NOT a silly plan for hunting down and nuking isolated bands of civilians who survived an all out nuclear war.
Did you ever serve on one of those SADM Teams?