Two things:
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How convinenient that he chose the capitals of the 3 countries that the US has a vendetta against. I'm genuinely surprised he didn't say Beijing or Gaza.
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This is clearly just manufacturing consent because no adult thinks this. Thinks that dropping atomic bombs on civillains will solve everything.
My three choices are, if I am forced to choose, deep space, deep space, and uhh.. deep space. Nukes are weapons of genocide and nothing else. Even nuking the Imperial Core would mostly kill just powerless people.
Nuking any nuclear power has an unacceptably high chance of touching off a life-ending war, too.
The only correct response here.