Comment by mandmandam

I appreciate the thanks... Looking at the horror honestly does take a toll.

Still, I'm glad you asked. It's better to have perspective on these things.

For anyone who wants to visualize what 85,000 tonnes of bombs looks like, it's about 5.7x the nuke dropped over Hiroshima (Hiroshima is 2.5x bigger than Gaza, and was 16x less densely populated than modern Gaza in 1945).

This comparison also helps put Vietnam into perspective - 333x Little Boy over ten years.