March 9-10, 1945: U.S. firebombing of Tokyo engulfs 15.8 square miles of the city, killing about 100,000 people. @wellerstein on the human toll of firebombing of Tokyo, & the events it is often compared to: the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.http://ow.ly/wLzW30nYvoV
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But, also have to take into account that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were 1 plane/bomb each while Dresden/Tokyo required hundreds of planes and thousands of bombs each.
Totally. The point I try to get at in the article, though, is that any way you slice it, the mortality rates of an atomic bomb are significantly higher than that of firebombing — they are not *quite* equivalent activities in this sense.