Clever Acronym or telling of its true nature?

I found this military paper recently on the internet and it raised an eyebrow (or two).

Basically, the government came up with a computer software program that simulates scenarios and the effects of using tactical nukes on the battlefield.

Called Simulation for the Assessment of Tactical Nuclear Weapons, its acronym is SATAN.

Kinda clever or does that really explain the nature of nukes...

And here was me thinking Mutually Assured Destruction was some one off joke . . .

There are two computers hidden under the corn fields of the mid-West that stage mock nuclear battles against each other constantly, and have been doing it for almost 50 years. SIOP is the American Single Integrated Operational Plan, and RSIOP just happens to be the same thing for the [sic] other side. But they simulate and predict strategic nuclear confrontations, not battlefield ones.
But I don't suppose there's much of a difference, all in all. Just more people get killed in one version.

I don't see how they get SATAN out of that. I see SATNW. Seems intentional. But that doesn't really change anything. Nukes can still create alot of damage and kill alot of people, and that's still just a computer program. Those things remain true whether it's named SATAN or not.

Simulation for Assessment of TActical Nuclear weapons. They capitalized the first two letter of Tactical, and dropped Weapons from the acronym. I've seen them do it before with others.

Personally, I'd lean more toward "This is a bit of humor on the part of the folks who named the software package" than "This is a coded message about the real source of our source code." There are a lot of amusing little acronymics out there, and a surprising number of them were intentionally chosen for their gallows humor, or simply for the "WTF?!" effect. My personal favorite is one that I came across (and worked with quite frequently) during my years as a financial analyst for a nursing home management company. It was a little program that was used to create reports for submission to the State of Arizona. It was called "Arizona Reporting System for Nursing Institution Control"...ARSNIC. I kept wondering if there was a related program called OLD LACE.