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From: convex!cash@uunet.UU.NET (Peter Cash)
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Subject: Hiroshima/Dresden
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From: convex!cash@uunet.UU.NET (Peter Cash)

I got into an argument recently over which caused more casualties--the
bombing of Hiroshima or of Dresden.  (I was arguing that conventional
weapons can inflict damage of proportions that we associate with nukes.)

It seems to me that I remember that Dresden casualties were estimated at
somewhere between 70 to 200 thousand.  I think that casualties at Hiroshima
were around 50 thousand. Anybody have any reliable figures?

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