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Yes that was the implication. Depends who you ask and talking about it at the time was full of controversy, but I have seen half a million excess deaths in the end for Iraq and maybe half that for Afghanistan?

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I think you mightbe underestimating either the population density of a major city or the kill everything radius of a thermonuclear weapon.

And the aftermath of a nuclear war. If they're going to count the people who died after the war proper, they should count them in both scenarios.

Would a nuke not have also led to wars like that?

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