If the nation was capable of doing that, it would be capable of exercising sufficient restraint to obviate the necessity of doing that.
In other words, ain't never gonna happen.
The collapse of said system is happening organically because the people operating it are ignorant of the underlying system variables and behavior.
What we are experiencing over the last century is merely ever increasing amplitudes of a system going unstable and eventually to the null space.
So it will “happen” all by itself. The guys in charge got a tiger by the tail and they have no clue how to control it.