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Five months before the nuclear bombs were detonated above Hiroshima and Nagasaki the US carried out Operating Meetinghouse which, over three nights, killed ~100
by TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
Five months before the nuclear bombs were detonated above Hiroshima and Nagasaki the US carried out Operating Meetinghouse which, over three nights, killed ~100,000 civilians and displaced 1,000,000 in Tokyo, effectively halving the industrial output of the whole city.[1]
Perhaps the general feeling is, when you've already gone to that extent, and the extremes and excesses of WWII in general, which killed about 60,000,000[2] in total, about 3% of the 1940 world population, another 100,000 odd doesn't make much difference.
Three percent of global population today would be about 231,000,000 people.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties