And look how quickly Europe and Japan rebuilt after the war.
Dutch Van Kirk is the last survivng member of the first A-bombing. When asked if he would do it again he said,
“Under the same circumstances — and the key words are ‘the same circumstances’ — yes, I would do it again. We were in a war for five years. We were fighting an enemy that had a reputation for never surrendering, never accepting defeat. It’s really hard to talk about morality and war in the same sentence. In a war, there are so many questionable things done. Where was the morality in the bombing of Coventry, or the bombing of Dresden, or the Bataan death march, or the Rape of Nanking, or the bombing of Pearl Harbor? I believe that when you’re in a war, a nation must have the courage to do what it must to win the war with a minimum loss of lives.”
So after five years of war against an enemy who won’t give up...we nuked them.
Now that’s a lesson that needs teaching in today’s world.