By 1945, close to 100 million people had been killed in conflict and a nuclear arms race had begun. As people stand at the centenary of the outbreak of the first world war, with civil war raging in Syria and Russian tanks massing on Ukraine's borders, Morris remarks that the last 100 years seem to have been the worst of times--and yet they have clearly also been the best of times. Difficult as it may be to believe, rates of violent death are lower now than they have ever been
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