"hiroshima facts" wrote in message
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"zxcv" wrote in message
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Since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs were about 10 kilotons and a B-17
had
a normal bomb load of about 3 tons and I have heard of a formation of
1300
B-17's on a bomb run that would equal around 4 kilotons (3 x 1300 =
3900)
would the devastation be the same as a small A-bomb? or is there some
lessening effect because of the spread of much smaller bombs?


Even in the worst cases of conventional bombing (like Tokyo), only 10%
of the affected population was killed.

In most of the Japanese cities firebombed, the death rate was about
1%.

The A-bombs killed about half of the people in the affected area both
times.

This is clearly incorrect , In 1946, the Manhattan Engineer District
published
a study that concluded that 66,000 people were killed at Hiroshima out of a
population of 255,000. Of that number, 45,000 died on the first day and
19,000
during the next four months.

Also in 1946, the Hiroshima police estimated the dead at 78,150 and the
missing
at 13,983, for a total of about 92,000 if all the missing are presumed dead
(a very unlikely hypothesis). So this estimate is not radically different
from
the American estimate.

In Nagasaki, out of a population of 174,000, 22,000 died on the
first day and another 17,000 within four months.

Keith