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Re:US drops 'largest non-nuclear bomb' in Afghanistan by zdean on Thursday April 13, 2017 @04:43PM (#14110760)
The cancer rates in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc have skyrocketed in the past decades. Some believe it's tied to the relentless bombings:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/dec/14/iraq.military

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Re:US drops 'largest non-nuclear bomb' in Afghanistan by MacsHeadroom on Thursday April 13, 2017 @05:05PM (#14110918)
Cancer screening has also skyrocketed and cancer is up in lots of places without active conflict.

I don't mean to minimize the actual destructive effects of war. But the evidence for cancer as being among them is far from conclusive.

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Re:US drops 'largest non-nuclear bomb' in Afghanistan by zdean on Thursday April 13, 2017 @05:42PM (#14111134)
Cancer screening skyrocketing doesn't account for a skyrocketing rate of cancer...it would simply capture more of the absolute number.
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