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veidr on June 2, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: When Nixon Threatened to Nuke Vietnam

I believe that the 250k suicide number is urban legend.

This study, for instance, found that the number was closer to 10k.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2343923

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