Number of Dead people in Hisroshima and Nagasaki?
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Number of Dead people in Hisroshima and Nagasaki?
Can someone tell me the official numbers of people who died there in eatch city?
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From http://www.uic.com.au/nip29.htmIn Hiroshima, of a resident civilian population of 250 000 it was estimated that 45 000 died on the first day and a further 19 000 during the subsequent four months. In Nagasaki, out of a population of 174 000, 22 000 died on the first day and another 17 000 within four months. Unrecorded deaths of military personnel and foreign workers may have added considerably to these figures.
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James McBride gives the same numbers I have from a couple of books here on the subject, or very close anyway.
The deaths although there were many, it is not as high as many people assume, in fact the firebombing of Tokyo did more damage and killed more people then both Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. The bombs were insignificant compared to modern thermonuclear weapons.
Consider the largest of the two dropped on Japan was 21 Kiloton. In 1954 the United States tested a 15,000 Kiloton weapon at Bikini Atoll.
In 1962 the USSR was rumored to have tested a 20,000 KT atmospheric burst weapon, that is unimaginable power.
Here is an image of the US Bravo H Bomb in 1954 with 15,000 kiloton yield:
http://www.zvis.com/nuclear/dimg.php3?bravo3,ctbravo
To large to post, but do have a look, as you can see this is a real city wiping weapon.
The deaths although there were many, it is not as high as many people assume, in fact the firebombing of Tokyo did more damage and killed more people then both Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. The bombs were insignificant compared to modern thermonuclear weapons.
Consider the largest of the two dropped on Japan was 21 Kiloton. In 1954 the United States tested a 15,000 Kiloton weapon at Bikini Atoll.
In 1962 the USSR was rumored to have tested a 20,000 KT atmospheric burst weapon, that is unimaginable power.
Here is an image of the US Bravo H Bomb in 1954 with 15,000 kiloton yield:
http://www.zvis.com/nuclear/dimg.php3?bravo3,ctbravo
To large to post, but do have a look, as you can see this is a real city wiping weapon.
The weapon was 2.5 times more yield then expected.Bravo's 15 Megaton explosion ripped the crater, which was 6510ft in diameter, with a depth of 250 ft. The fireball was 4 miles in diameter. The mushroom at its peak was 130,000ft (40+ km) high, 322,500ft (100 km) diameter with a stem of 22,500ft (7km).
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I just typed "Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Deaths" into Google, because I had been curious about the numbers myself. I am glad that the numbers are correct or near correct, because I only found two websites with numbers of the first twenty, and the numbers were slightly different.Caldric wrote:James McBride gives the same numbers I have from a couple of books here on the subject, or very close anyway.
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Not with actual quotes on the search. That was just to show what I searched clearly.
One thing to remember about Nagasaki and Hiroshima were fission bombs, which work just fine, however the fusion bombs designed after the war were much more devastating weapons.
The big bombs like the Castle Test and its 15 megaton explosion are 100's of times more damaging then the realtive small bombs dropped at Hiroshima/Nagasaki.
Even the small 2 kiloton fussion bombs would most likely do much more damage to Nagasaki then the 21 kt dropped there.
The big bombs like the Castle Test and its 15 megaton explosion are 100's of times more damaging then the realtive small bombs dropped at Hiroshima/Nagasaki.
Even the small 2 kiloton fussion bombs would most likely do much more damage to Nagasaki then the 21 kt dropped there.
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No, the valleys and hills in and aroud Nagasaki actually deflected the blast preventing the blast from being a nice big pretty circular pattern. It may have been more intense in the valleys but I really don't think that matters.
I believe Nagasaki was the tertiary(third) target that day, It was the last on the list, bad weather weather prevented it from being dropped on Kyoto or the secondary target I can't remember
I believe Nagasaki was the tertiary(third) target that day, It was the last on the list, bad weather weather prevented it from being dropped on Kyoto or the secondary target I can't remember
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