taw comments on Our society lacks good self-preservation mechanisms - Less Wrong
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As I said, economy of countries destroyed after WW1 and WW2 picked up where it left extremely quickly, and definitely did not result in lasting return to stone age as some imagine. This makes me guess the economic disruption of a global thermonuclear war wouldn't be that long either.
This is an outside view, and it's pretty clear, but I understand some people would rather take an inside view, which would be much more pessimistic.