Mao killed 70 million of his own people and Stalin at least 35 million
or more of his own populace (more than Hitler) - and that is in relatively
modern times when nukes were most likely to be used but were not.
Then you have the Mongol invasions and the Black Plague, which
the latter wiped out half of Europeand you could not even see that
"enemy".
Yes, nukes can get a lot in one blow, but our species has been
slaughtering its members in large numbers for a long time without such
weapons.
What I am saying is there will always be stupid evil people and big
problems, but it goes in cycles and our current problems are nothing
compared to what has gone before, and we survived that.
Oh yeah, there was that ecological crisis about 70,000 years ago
that killed all but a few thousand of our ancestors, and we got
through that.
And there there was the Permian-Triassic impact that wiped out 90%
of all life on Earth....
Space/Science » in reply to But they did NOT have nukes.
Lots of dictators didn't need nukes to kill millions
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