Yes, because we've totally just been nuking or threatening to nuke anyone who looked at us cross-eyed for the last few decades... /s Your nomenclature is a bit hyperbolic.
"competitor countries" in the nuclear context mean "countries that threaten us with nuclear war", "coercive tactic" and "when it serves the US national interest" correspondingly means "threatening nuclear war to dissuade existential threats", and "competitive disadvantage" means "being on the losing side of a nuclear exchange".
We can debate what the official policy should or should not say but please don't take the terms out of context to make them sound scary, it really detracts from your argument.
"competitor countries" in the nuclear context mean "countries that threaten us with nuclear war", "coercive tactic" and "when it serves the US national interest" correspondingly means "threatening nuclear war to dissuade existential threats", and "competitive disadvantage" means "being on the losing side of a nuclear exchange".
We can debate what the official policy should or should not say but please don't take the terms out of context to make them sound scary, it really detracts from your argument.