THS, in theory yes however, and this is purely speculation and I expect the engineers will comment too.
In the 50s reheat was all or nothing, throtleable reheat came later. Reheat cans weigh more than clean pipes and, unlike RATOG, would have to be dragged around all the time. RATOG would be a self-contained bolt-on and drop off. Reheat would use precious fuel so that aircraft using short runways would suffer greater range penalties and be limited to shorter range targets.
Strategically bombers on longer runways would therefore become priority targets as the enemy could deduce they were deep penetration missions.