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On the before and after of the nuke, I've always preferred this from the first world war:
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https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol51no4/images/Figure99Passchendaele1917beforeandafter.jpg
It's a before and after of Passchendaele using conventional munitions. This covered the time in which the front line swept through the town.
It's the only image that fully conveyed to me why so many people died.
Right in the midst of that, men stood in primitive lines with rifles. No wonder the numbers were so high, who could possibly have survived that!