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.
If I remember correctly, in World War II the British learned of the imminent bombing of Coventry in sufficient time to warn the populace. They did not because such a warning would have revealed that the British had succeeded in breaking the German codes.
Innocent civilians have died in almost every war that ever existed, and in almost unimaginable numbers in the twentieth century. What do you think is happening in Iraq?
And just whose cities were destroyed in the US Civil War?
I believe that Harry Truman had virtually sole responsibility to decide whether to drop nuclear weapons on Japan. Few consider him much outside of "average".
I’ll trust 100 million adults to make their own decisions rather than trust a government hack to make my decisions for myself.
Individual decisions have little ramification beyond the decision maker. That’s not so for government decision makers. They are about the only ones unaffected by their decisions.