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To: tanknetter

Thanks
From that wikipedia article

“On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 AM, the nuclear bomb ‘Little Boy’ was dropped on Hiroshima by an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay,[11] directly killing an estimated 80,000 people. By the end of the year, injury and radiation brought total casualties to 90,000-140,000.[12] Approximately 69% of the city’s buildings were completely destroyed, and about 7% severely damaged.”

Do you agree with these numbers ?


65 posted on 10/11/2009 3:26:59 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Waste and fraud are synonymous with gov't spending)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
Do you agree with these numbers ?

Yup, they look about right. Going with the high-end estimate of 140,000 dead within five months after the bomb, leaves a population of roughly 280,000. To get down to a population of 137,197 means a little more than half the survivors (143,000) decamped for other parts.
66 posted on 10/11/2009 3:40:43 PM PDT by tanknetter
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