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hackyhackytoday at 3:46 AM1 replyview on HN

> The death toll from Hiroshima and Nagasaki is estimated at about 200,000.

Nice of you to omit the 50 million other civilian casualties in WW2, plus around 20 million military casualties a 5 million prisoners. Nothing in the classical world comes close to that left of destruction.


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testaccount28today at 5:57 AM

famously, the bombs were what _ended_ the war.