The death toll from the south Asian tsunami disaster could soon rival that

UNDATED The death toll from the south Asian tsunami disaster could soon rival that of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan.

An estimated 140-thousand people died when the United States dropped that bomb on August sixth, 1945, not including those who later succumbed to illnesses attributed to radiation.

The toll from last Sunday's disaster is more than 121-thousand dead, and climbing.

That's almost double the 74-thousand killed in the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, three days after Hiroshima.

And the toll well exceeds the more than 58-thousand Americans killed in the Vietnam war.

But it's far from the deadliest natural disaster on record. Some 24 (m) million people are said to have died in a 1907 famine in China.

More recently, a 1970 cyclone in Bangladesh is believed to have killed 300-thousand.

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;-)

But yeah..that's just terrible. It's amazing though it will be totally forgetten soon.

The unofficial death toll went to 650,000. The official one is 240,000. The real toll may never be known, as China was still in the Cultural Revolution and facts were often altered to fit dogma.

that left over a one million dead in Vietnam.
The Chernobyl accident is excepted to result in over 400,000 slow painful deaths.

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