We keep hearing about the civilian deaths attributed to the Israel/Hamas war. Let’s take a quick history refresher, when the United States dropped two A-bombs on Japan. Undoubtedly, the two bombs caused horrific results, with one bomb clearing five square miles of everything.
It is estimated that around 140,000 of Hiroshima’s population of 350,000 were killed in the bombing, and it is estimated that around 74,000 people died in Nagasaki.
In Hiroshima, on August 6, around 80,000 people were killed immediately when the bomb was dropped. In Nagasaki, on August 9, around 40,000 people were killed instantly. Tens of thousands of others died in the aftermath, of radiation poisoning and their injuries.
Undeniable at the same time, the A-bombs ended the senseless killing world-wide between the war-torn nations. How many more innocents were to be killed in the years-long war had the bombs not been deployed is anyone’s guess.
When it comes to a peoples’ literal existence, the “rule book” of war is naturally disregarded in the effort to survive.
