Is "nuking people first" a policy you would applaud in someone else, Guest? Someone who is not an ally?

I thought not.

It's amazing how people can rationally justify the most awful things in their own minds, the most criminal acts, as long as they propose doing them to someone else, isn't it?

What would the USA have thought of someone else (other than the Anglo nations) who, in 1945, dropped A-bombs on cities? Who burned out Dresden? "War criminals!" is what they would have thought. Well, they would have been quite right about that.