Second: vitrify the nation where it came from.
I understand the sentiment. However nations are made up of people, the vast majority of whom have nothing to say about what their govenrments do. To even speak out against the government may cause severe repercussions in most nations in this world. These people for the most part are just plain everyday folks, trying to get along and raise thier faimilies.
A better idea is to go after the people responsible and those who aided the acts. Simply nuking a nation is an insane act since 99.999999% of the people have nothing to do with the act.