He is also forgetting that neither ours, or the Soviet's space programs would have blossomed as they did.
Some folks just can't adjust to the fact that good can come from evil.
Case in point.
In the navy, we build survival equipment for flyers who go in the drink in super cold water. After WWII the navy had to rethink much of what it "knew" about the situation. The reason they were able to come up new tech on the subject was because of the "experiments" that the Japanese conducted on American and Chinese POWs.
We now know EXACTLY how long a man will live in sub freezing sea water.
Many men died giving us that info.
Good insight.