were lost. Approximately 16 square miles (41 km²) of the city were destroyed and some 100,000 people are estimated to have died in the resulting firestorm , more than the immediate deaths of either the Hiroshima or Nagasaki atomic bombs. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo Link of interest: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/tokyo.htm In the face of such