[moo360]

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

[mikeash]

It was an awful lot less than most 60 year periods in human history.

[cm2187]

Only between nations where one or both didn't have nuclear deterrence.

[wavefunction]

Or internally. Or at the behest of nuclear powers.

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]

>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.