Most american stories from the depression are of interrupted good fortune : we lost the department store , the business , the farm , endured with f. d. r. , and swelled again with ike .
The influential u.s. strategic bombing survey found after world war ii that the massive bombings of germany and japan did not break their will to fight , and many prominent political and military leaders , even the eminently sane ike , argued for treating nuclear weapons just like any other weapon .
