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by ginko 571 days ago
>he was 1 more casualty of a weapon that went on to kill 150-240k people thereafter. Live by the sword, etc.

The Slotin incident happened in 1946, after WW2 had ended.

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OP was referencing Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The total deaths from those two atomic bombs is estimated at 150-240k.