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The ghastly toll of war can’t be compensated by any proportional gain in industrial, medical or technological advancement. No war in history had taken a greater toll of human life than World War II, nor presented the world with more technological advances including the most destructive weapon ever deployed against a civilian population. By its conclusion the deadliest bunch of dictators ever to arise had managed to precipitate the extermination of between three and four percent of the world’s population, at least 85 million soldiers and civilians perished. With them went their potential to contribute to the advancement of civilization. Remarkably, for the second time in the first half of the 20th century the world had faced a devastating confluence of political strife, militarism, destruction of infrastructure and loss of civilian life from the barbaric bombing of cities in Europe, Africa and Asia (including Pearl Harbor).
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Voller, R. (2021). Aging Companion Stars (1946-1953). In: Hubble, Humason and the Big Bang. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82181-4_12
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