• jaspersgroove@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    That excess deaths number is the total for all above-ground nuclear bomb tests ever done combined.

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      6 months ago

      Yes, I cut the text so much that it became misleading. Thanks for the clarification.

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      6 months ago

      Which, unfortunately, includes armies being ordered to march into blast zones while the mushroom cloud was still in the sky, so it’s not a very useful metric.