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Cub Driver wrote in message . ..
It would appear that somewhere between 25 and 30 percent of the Hiroshima population was killed. But how many of them were in the area affected by the bomb? But that, surely, is the whole point! The atomic bomb makes rubble bounce. The same or less kilotonnage spread over a wide area might well do much more damage. To structures, perhaps. But even if we use the lower mortality figures of 7-8% for Tokyo, and 31% for the nukes, there are still a lot more killed within the affected area with nukes. To put it another way, compare the number killed with one of the A-bombs with the number killed in Tokyo. Then compare the area destroyed and the population density of that area. It is true that "people not taking cover from the nukes" is going to skew this some, but I expect that there would still be a considerable difference even if that was taken into account. |
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