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by masklinn 3845 days ago
> We also accidentally dropped two nukes in Japan, and accidentally made Napalm and Agent Orange rain into the Vietnamese, with enormously high and vastly-civilian casualties in both cases.

Don't forget the extensive firebombings of numerous cities including Dresden or Tokyo (casualties estimates for the latter are in the same 100000~200000 range as the two nuclear strikes combined)

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Which has still issues today – every few weeks whole districts in German cities are evacuated, because they found another WWII bomb with chemical timer that hasn’t exploded yet.