"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message ...
"hiroshima facts" wrote in message
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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.

I don't think all 255,000 people were in the area affected by the
A-bomb, though.




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

In the case of Nagasaki, I know all 174,000 were not in the affected
area, since the pilot could only get sight of the arms-production
complexes on the outskirts of the city and so dropped the bomb there
on the outskirts.