What is the greatest human disaster?

It is the disasters that occurs in America. It is the disaster that occur where the big western medias are. That is how I see it really.

Look at Beslan hostage situation. I can tell you that is like orse than the Twin Towers in some ways or maybe even equivalent because it was just school children.

WTC tragedy as much as it is big was way over dramatized. I remember some stations were even playing dramatic music while giving their report in it.

Black Plague in the 14th Century.  137 million victims.  Imagine blackened, walking corpses moaning in agony in the streets, rotting dead flesh falling off in clumps.  And if you came in contact with them, your chance of survival was only about 10%.

Or the fall of Rome.  The possibly greatest empire in the history of earth fell to inbreeding and religious nonsence.  Had it not fallen, the 500 years of instability in europe would have been replaced by 500 years of science and achievement.  Imagine if Christopher Columbus hadn't discovered America, but instead been the first man to walk on the moon.