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Dyer: Has post-war generation forgotten how hard-won peace is?

Post-WW2 slaughter, the solution settled on was simple: changing borders by force is against the law; attacking another country is a crime.

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Eighty years ago, we set out to drain the swamp. At least 50 million people were dead after the greatest war in history, around half the cities in the northern hemisphere had been smashed flat, and the first nuclear weapons had just been dropped on Japanese cities.

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