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I was born at the end of the cold war, unaware of the danger we were emerging from. Duck and cover drills (as if those could protect schoolchildren from a nuclear blast) were a curiosity of the past.
The farmer-poet Wendell Berry, who wrote about the dread of nuclear war, died recently. From his 1968 “The peace of wild things”:
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least...
The earlier EA Survey Donation post (and linked notebook/Bookdown chapter on this) may be helpful.
But I'm not sure which base group you are considering, or what measure you are considering
Base group: All people who identify as EAs, all US Americans, all people in the world, all people in the world with income above some value?
Metric: Top 1% in terms of absolute amounts given or in terms of share of income given?
I think you might be able tease out the answer to some of your questions from [this paper](https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Evolving-Distribution-of-Giving-in-the-United-Duquette/48b092a6436e213b45d86e090cce508ac16ab77d). Sorry I don't have the data/numbers to hand, I've worked on this before.