If you sample the last 100 years there would be a lot more deaths from nuclear strikes.

To be honest, I think the most likely outcome of the cold-war was nuclear annihilation. There were a bunch of times when the trigger was nearly pulled on that one, where world leaders were engaged in brinksmanship, drunk at the switch, where electronic systems failed, where bombs got dropped out of planes by accident, or, in one case, where a general went rogue and decided he wanted to nuke China.