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  • list of wars by death toll includes all deaths that are either directly or indirectly caused by the war. These numbers usually include the deaths of military...
    115 KB (6,691 words) - 16:00, 28 March 2024
  • terrorist attacks, are omitted; those events can be found at List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll. While all of the listed accidents...
    122 KB (3,841 words) - 14:22, 27 March 2024
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    people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Japan surrendered to the Allies on 15 August, six...
    217 KB (24,949 words) - 13:29, 27 March 2024
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    nuclear power use is to expand significantly, nuclear facilities will have to be made extremely safe from attacks that could release radioactivity into the...
    120 KB (11,788 words) - 02:37, 24 March 2024
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    develop and test nuclear weapons, and is one of the five nuclear-weapon states under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The UK initiated...
    188 KB (21,561 words) - 21:50, 19 February 2024
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    escaping completely from this substance depending on the actions of the individual. Nuclear war could yield unprecedented human death tolls and habitat destruction...
    114 KB (12,989 words) - 19:48, 28 March 2024
  • accidents involving nuclear material. Civilian accidents are listed at List of civilian nuclear accidents. For a general discussion of both civilian and...
    84 KB (2,383 words) - 14:21, 6 March 2024
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    South Africa was one of five countries making a referral of the war to the ICC in November 2023. The rocket attacks on Israeli cities by Hamas decreased...
    532 KB (49,754 words) - 03:20, 29 March 2024
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    11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist suicide terrorist attacks carried out by Al-Qaeda against the United States on September...
    332 KB (31,939 words) - 22:19, 24 March 2024
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    began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian...
    274 KB (29,872 words) - 21:12, 28 March 2024
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    indiscriminate attacks on civilian targets to be illegal under international law. Palestinian militants say rocket attacks are a response to Israel's blockade of Gaza...
    172 KB (16,558 words) - 16:25, 8 March 2024
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    examine the "nuclear twilight" idea. This model projected that massive quantities of soot and smoke would remain aloft in the air for on the order of years,...
    204 KB (22,620 words) - 20:07, 27 February 2024
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    uniforms or use of air attacks. Following are the yearly IBC Project violent civilian death totals, broken down by month from the beginning of 2003. Table...
    188 KB (17,157 words) - 15:49, 28 March 2024
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    second, depending on the height of detonation, is a large quantity of radioactive dust and sand with a short half-life. All nuclear explosions produce...
    80 KB (9,553 words) - 21:20, 23 February 2024
  • are nuclear-powered. Ballistic missile submarines have a single strategic mission of carrying nuclear submarine-launched ballistic missiles. Attack submarines...
    43 KB (5,243 words) - 05:23, 20 November 2023
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    and that clean up from nuclear accidents are highly expensive and can take decades. Attacks on nuclear plants: a concern that nuclear facilities could...
    201 KB (19,085 words) - 20:04, 13 March 2024
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    terrorist attacks. Targets allegedly were the home of George W. Bush, hydroelectric dams, nuclear power plants, nightclubs and the homes of soldiers who...
    205 KB (20,309 words) - 20:34, 21 March 2024
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    Russian infighting over death toll". BBC News. Meyer, David (14 March 2022). "Why is it so hard to get accurate death tolls in the Russia-Ukraine war...
    379 KB (33,763 words) - 23:25, 28 March 2024
  • missile attacks on Jan. 8". The Kyiv Independent. Retrieved 9 January 2024. Fornusek, Martin (9 January 2024). "Update: Death toll of Jan. 8 attack on Khmelnytskyi...
    333 KB (31,729 words) - 20:54, 28 March 2024
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    industrial areas. Post-war discussions about whether the attacks were justified – with the death toll inflated to 200,000 by propaganda in Nazi Germany and...
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