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  2. List of wars by death toll - Wikipedia

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    This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics , famines , or genocides .

  3. List of countries by cancer rate - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of countries by cancer rate, as measured variously by the number of new cancer cases (frequency), or death rate (mortality), per 100,000 population among countries, and dependencies. Rates of cancer

  4. Gulf War - Wikipedia

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    The war is also known under other names, such as the Second Gulf War (not to be confused with the 2003 Iraq War, also referred to as such [27]), Persian Gulf War, Kuwait War, First Iraq War, or Iraq War [28] [29] [30] [b] before the term "Iraq War" became identified with the 2003 Iraq War (also known in the US as "Operation Iraqi Freedom"). [31]

  5. United States military casualties of war - Wikipedia

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    As of June 2018 total of US World War II casualties listed as MIA is 72,823 [94] e. ^ Korean War : Note: [ 20 ] gives Dead as 33,746 and Wounded as 103, 284 and MIA as 8,177. The American Battle Monuments Commission database for the Korean War reports that "The Department of Defense reports that 54,246 American service men and women lost their ...

  6. Environmental impact of the Gulf wars - Wikipedia

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    The US Department of Veterans Affairs and the National Academy of Science (NAS) released multiple reports on the Gulf war illnesses, following the conclusion of the Gulf Wars. According to a 2007 report on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses (RAC) [ 21 ] Veterans in Iraq were exposed to various chemical agents including DU , pesticides , nerve gas ...

  7. Category:Deaths from breast cancer - Wikipedia

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    This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. ... Pages in category "Deaths from breast cancer" The following 105 pages are in this category, out ...

  8. Civilian casualty ratio - Wikipedia

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    Globally, the civilian casualty ratio often hovers around 50%. It is sometimes stated that 90% of victims of modern wars are civilians, [13] but that is a myth. [2] [4]In 1989, William Eckhardt studied casualties of conflicts from 1700 to 1987 and found that "the civilian percentage share of war-related deaths remained at about 50% from century to century."

  9. Iraqi ballistic missile attacks on Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia

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    Although the attacks were largely inaccurate, the missiles caused 28 of the 148 United States battle deaths during the Gulf War. [2] Most of the Iraqi ballistic missiles fired at Saudi Arabia were aimed at military targets, leading to low civilian casualties.