Remember, NOTHING was expected to grow in Hiroshima or Nagasaki for 92 years! Yet the next year plants sprouted and trees grew.
Back in the early 1960s, I took the magazine PROGRESSIVE FARMER. In one issue was the story of OLD GRANNY, a cow that had been exposed to radioactive fallout from the first nuke test in New Mexico. Moved to Oak Ridge, Tenn, she continued to drop normal calves for the next 19 years.
The good Lord made life to be resilient.
It is pretty amazing.