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It doesn't, but the media is too uncreative to come up with a new moniker for allowing batch action on nominees, so they reused "nuclear option" even though that was previously about the filibuster.
When you think about it for a second, saying “nuclear option” to discuss the actions of the government in charge of the worlds largest arsenal of planet-ending nuclear weapons is a hell of a phrase to just use casually like this.
It's was also about appointments, happened in 2016 when repubs were refusing to confirm Obama's cebtrist judges