And thank god we don't have terrorists flying airliners full of passengers into 110 story skyscrapers which subsequently fall to the ground with office workers and firemen still inside, taking the stockmarket with them.
(or children being taught how to be Muslims or homosexuals in kindergarten)
Do you really want to compare 9-11 to the effects of a 20 MT Soviet nuke dropping on Manhattan?
As to raw numbers from 50 years ago, with about half of todays population, we easily lost 3000 coal miners every year back then. Now we sometimes go years without losing any. Want to count up deaths from Polio? Or measles or mumps?
I dont know what makes you think you are living in the worst times --- some self-pity I suspect --- but you need to study some history, even recent history, and gain some perspective.