what is the worst disaster (mass death) in thie world in 1900-2007(apart from Hiroshima bomb) ?

Answer 1

Hiroshima or Nagasaki were but minor events of WW2. Larger battles and bombings killed more than either of them with some battles claiming 3 to 4 times the deaths of both nuke.

While war is a man made disaster, WW2 would fit the bill with around 30 to 50 million killed.

A natural disaster would be the Spanish Flu were up towards 100 million died.

Everything else is just not on these levels.

Answer 2

the worst disaster of modern world history was almost certainly the great spanish flu epidemic of 1917/18.

bombing hiroshima probably cost a shade under 200,000 lives (including those who died from the after-effects of radiation in the area). the asian tsunami killed a little less than 250,000 people (though most of those died in a much shorter period than at hiroshima).

the great spanish flu epidemic wiped out about 100,000,000 people.

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not only that, but the total world population in 1916 was probably only a shade over two billion (it is currently approaching seven billion) so the total percentage of humanity to die in those two years was truly enormous.

whole families were wiped out, and sometimes even small villages. the only country not affected was papua new guinea, everywhere else the death toll came close to causing social collapse.

many medical researchers argue that the sleepy sickness of the 1920s - which claimed another 5,000,000 lives was probably an after-effect of the spanish flu.

epidemic diseases kill far more widely and effectively than natural disasters do - and we could have another one any time at all.

(remember the bird flu scare)?

Answer 3

There were more deaths from the incendiary bombings of german and japanese cities than the nuclear attacks on hiroshima. The mass deaths at Hitler's death camps or Stalins siberian camps are unmatched, but they weren't done in a short period of time.

Answer 4

The Tsunami on Dec 26th, 2004. It killed over 200,000 people.

Have to edit... Natural Disaster mass death is the Tsunami; Man Made mass death is what the person below me said, The Holucost. 6 million where killed then.

Answer 5

The holocaust and the Tsunami in 2004.

Answer 6

The Influenza pandemic of 1917-1918 is estimated to have killed over 25 million people.

Answer 7

Well, no body ever mentions US inflicted deaths so here it is:

-4M in Viet Nam (about 3 to 4 in the second Indochina war, half a mil in the first Indochina war, which the US paid for 78%)
-500 000 in Indonesia (the CIA made a list of communists for Suharto to kill)
- 30 000 in Nicaragua (US wholly sponsored Contras. It is important to remember their sheer cruelty. Here is a profile of a their crimes: Rosa had her breasts cut off. Then they cut into her chest and took out her heart. The men had their arms broken, their testicles cut off and their eyes poked out. They were killed by slitting their throats and pulling the tongue out through the slit.)
-The War in Colombia still raging has also been wholly financed with US funds.
-In Palestine, the Israeli campaign of terror has also been substantially funded by the US
-The East Timorese genocide. Arms provided by the US
-The Dirty Wars in Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Brazil were sponsored and motivated by the US. Latin American torturers were trained in US made School of Americas...
I have to get back to work. The list does go on.... include globalization and its trail of misery.

Answer 8

the 2004 tsunami of acheh indonesia

Answer 9

i was going to say jonestown, but the 1st 2 hit it on the head

Answer 10

The aids epidemic ~~