Under the present circumstances, I would consider that rather harsh. If nukes had been developed a hundred years earlier, what would the Confederate Army have done? What would the Union Army have done to Richmond?
Was the bombing of Japan in August of 1945 wrong? Was it ineffective?
If the Japanese had invaded the US, as I believe they did Manchuria, and had installed a puppet government, as I believe they did in Manchuria, would it then be appropriate to "blow up DC"?
No...you don’t blow up one of our own cities.
But you’re not going to be able to blow up Japan either. That is why we still need a strong military. I mean you don’t let the average joe make these kinds of decisions.