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Weapons appeared very early in human history. Indeed, we can say that technology began with weapons, at least those for hunting. It has been said that, from the beginning, humans felt the need to complete their diet with proteins from animals, but their physical structure was never designed to be a natural predator. Therefore, they had to resort to tools to make up for this serious handicap.
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These figures, which are very high indeed, are taken from E. Durschmied, From Armageddon to the fall of Rome, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2002.
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The figures and the declarations reported here are mostly taken from https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardamenti_atomici_di_Hiroshima_e_Nagasaki.
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Genta, G., Riberi, P. (2019). The dark side of technology. In: Technology and the Growth of Civilization. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25583-1_9
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