Did I say it was repugnant? It was the way it was.
It does make a difference if legitimately God is behind it. I suppose there are good reasons, bad reasons, and Divine reasons for destroying a people.
Some say that Hiroshima was a good reason; I’ve not heard anyone argue that it legitimately was a Divine reason.
You didn't you hear what President Truman said about “the bomb” then?
“It (the atomic bomb) is an awful responsibility which has come to us. We thank God that it has come to us, instead of to our enemies; and we pray that He may guide us to use it in His ways and for His purposes.” President Truman
There's a huge, if not gigantic, moral, ethical and tactical difference between nuking a city to avoid a larger, protracted war, and the killing of an innocent child for absolutely no fault of its. In the Amalakite example, the animals were killed, in addition to the children.