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That excess deaths number is the total for all above-ground nuclear bomb tests ever done combined.
Yes, I cut the text so much that it became misleading. Thanks for the clarification.
Which, unfortunately, includes armies being ordered to march into blast zones while the mushroom cloud was still in the sky, so it's not a very useful metric.