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Yes, by making sure they don't hit back. The United States won a nuclear war against Japan in WW2. In theory, it's possible to intercept all the missiles from an enemy, see Iran's attack on Israel recently.

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Iran notified the U.S. About the attack in advance.

The US was the only one with functioning nukes. That short period was not a nuclear war.

If your nukes are intercepted before any of them can hit their targets, do they count as functioning nukes?

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