Re: who really started ww2 in the pacific?

Chris <cmanteuf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Dec 8, 5:25 pm, "Don Phillipson" <e...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

After the fact, it seems likely more people died at
Dresden than at Hiroshima, i.e. the main strategic
innovation of the atomic bomb was in the economy
of its delivery, i.e. one aircraft dropping 10 or 20kt
(TNT equivalent) rather than thousands of aircraft.

I don't believe this is true anymore. The best number for Dresden
would be circa 25,000 people, far lower than Hiroshima or Nagasaki
numbers (roughly 80-90k deaths).

Official figures for either bomb are varied, but as of 2000, about 130k names
were on the Hiroshima cenotaph, and about 60-80k was the accepted figure
for Nagasaki. As contrasts you bring up the Tokyo fire-bombing, but it's
important to note that the Okinawa operation cost approximately 200k Japanese
lives, about equally divided between troops and civilians.

However, the firebombing of Tokyo on the night of 9-10 March probably
did kill more people than either atomic bombing: around 100k people.

This is also a controversial figure, but from a different perspective. The
US commonly lists about 120+k as the death toll, while Japanese sources
typically run 70-80k.

Mike

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