[extropy-chat] ray gun

[Dirk Bruere]

On 2/3/06, Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
> >The biggest one-day slaughter in Human history was done with swords and
> >spears, not guns or nukes.
> >
> >Cannae
>
> Maximum dead on both sides: less than 70,000. cf. (Wiki:) Hiroshima:
> 80,000. Nagasaki: estimated 70,000 people were killed outright with
> another
> 70,000 doomed to die of bomb-related causes in the decades that followed.
>

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/abomb/mp10.htm
Hiroshima dead 66,000, not all of whom died within the 24 hrs specified.
Nagasaki 39,000

Dirk

Cannae
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