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There was an awful lot of war in your "60 years of peace".

• cm2187 9y ago
  Only between nations where one or both didn't have nuclear deterrence.
  • wavefunction 9y ago
    Or internally. Or at the behest of nuclear powers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts#10.2C000_or_more_deaths_in_current_or_past_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflict... And I guess those are just 'direct' deaths so it doesn't count all the deaths of refugees or plague or starvation that arose from the conflicts.
    • dsfyu404ed 9y ago
      >And I guess those are just 'direct' deaths so it doesn't count all the deaths of refugees or plague or starvation that arose from the conflicts. And is there and reason to believe the killed anecdotally to killed in action ratio is different than it was pre-1945? Starving refugees were a thing before nuclear weapons too.
• mikeash 9y ago
  It was an awful lot less than most 60 year periods in human history.