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Originally Posted by krichard

wow 130,000 jobs...... wonder if any of those 130,000 people felt any responsibility for the death of ~250,000 innocent civilians?

Right, because it's ONLY through the use of nukes that civilians are killed during war?

Apparently, there was a lot of nuke testing going on during WWI? I wonder if the folks that make Air planes, or ships, or submarines, or bullets, or gunpowder or bombs etc.... feel bad about the civilians that died

WWI

The total number of casualties in World War I, both military and civilian, were about 37 million: 16 million deaths and 21 million wounded. The total number of deaths includes 9.7 million military personnel and about 6.8 million civilians. The Entente Powers (also known as the Allies) lost about 5.7 million soldiers while the Central Powers lost about 4 million.

WW2

World War II casualty statistics vary greatly. Estimates of total dead range from 50 million to over 70 million. The sources cited on this page document an estimated death toll in World War II of 62 to 78 million, making it the deadliest war ever. When scholarly sources differ on the number of deaths in a country, a range of war losses is given, in order to inform readers that the death toll is disputed. Civilians killed totaled from 40 to 52 million, including 13 to 20 million from war-related disease and famine. Total military dead: from 22 to 25 million, including deaths in captivity of about 5 million prisoners of war.
Recent historical scholarship

So, while the dropping of nukes wasn't a good thing, it was pretty much just a drop in the bucket when referenced against the rest of the war.