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Originally posted by Talthyr Malkaviel:
Well, let's see firestorms may have killed people slower in the first blast area, but look at the long term effects, you cannot totally eliminate the long terms, at least not as yet, and just look what it did to Nagasaki and Hiroshima, people still these days are born with cancer or other illnesses/ deformities due to the pollution left by the bombs, there have been hundreds of horrific accounts of the piles of bodies still nbarely alive, affected by radiation, and people with skin peeled off etc.
All because Nuclear bombs were used before more extensive knowledge of the effects were known.
Ive done some research on this, apparently Nagasaki and Hiroshima each have accounted for roughly 65,000 deaths or disfigurements or illnesses (these are rough numbers) only 35000-45000 were due to the initial blast in each case. The dresden firestorm was estimated to have killed roughly 100,000 people. The Tokyo firestorm is estimated to have been worse but I havent found any reliable figures, the ones I have found vary wildly. (I would also like to comment that there are wild variances in the estimates for Nagasaki and Hiroshima, it would appear that the rabid anti-nuke types inflate the numbers and the rabid pro-nuke types under estimate them..so Im working with what I consider a uhh "happy" medium)