Nuclear bombs, unlike personal arms, are undifferentiated weapons, i.e., carrying a nuclear bomb in a backpack is the equivalent of holding a gun pointed at the temple of every passerby within its 15 mile range. If you threaten him with nuclear annihilation, then you have indiscriminately threatened everyone within its 15 mile radius. Any person or group that so arms itself has severed all ties with the current government. They are, in effect, a new competing government whose job is to repel the illegitimate government and protect the people from domestic and foreign aggressors. Nuclear weapons are not, however, an effective tool of resistance against one's own government.
Nuclear weapons are tools of mass, undifferentiated retaliatory destruction.
If a resistance movement needs to use such weapons against major population areas it has failed miserably in promoting the philosophical ideas needed for a successful revolt and will fail in establishing a free society after the rubble is cleared. Pacifism Clearly, if force is to be successful and justified, then force must have a proper moral, philosophical foundation. Basically such a society is a contradiction. A pacifist society would be a magnet drawing the worst of man from all the world. Every kind of criminal mind from the lowly pickpocket to the blood thirsty serial murderer to any aspiring dictator would rush to this criminal's paradise of easy pickings.