[extropy-chat] ray gun

[John K Clark]

"Damien Broderick" <thespike at satx.rr.com>

> 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.

The non nuclear firebombing of Tokyo killed at least 125,000 people,
probably the bloodiest 6 hours in human history. The firebombing of Hamburg
may have killed more but took a couple of days.

John K Clark