The Soviets admitted to 20,000,000 in their official history, which is probably quite low. I have seen figures of 25 million as well and one Russian politician a few years back quoted 35 million which may be a bit high. Also note that the 54 million figure includes the Sino-Japanese conflict which was very costly.
If Iran tries first use and detonates a bomb in Israel the Israelis will probably flatten about two dozen carefully chosen targets. A few hard targets such as known command posts and weapon facilities would be hit. A few symbolic targets such as Teheran and Qom might be destroyed. And then they might take out the only gasoline refinery Iran has. And that reactor at Bushehr. Nasty mess, that last one.
Yes I agree with response scenario.
One reason I left libertarians soft on Iran, but don’t see much difference with bush and Obama
We should have taken irans word on there multiple threats and done a joint attack