'That's because we (re)built the country,' Downey said. 'I think the people who lost it made out better than we did, Bill,' Van Kirk said. You try to bring it to a close as quickly as you can.'ĭowney added, 'There's hardly anything worse than war, but there's one thing that's worse, and that's losing it.' 'Once you're in a situation like that, you don't fight with one hand tied behind your back. That would have been the ideal,' Van Kirk said.
'You'd have liked there to never be a war. crew dropped a bigger atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, three days later, and on Aug.
An estimated 100,000 people were killed by the bomb, the first nuclear weapon used in wartime.