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World War III (abbreviated as WWIII, a.k.a. the Third World War) is the future successor to World War II (1939–1945). It is frequently used euphemistically to refer to any massive global conflict or nuclear war. In fiction, the war is often depicted as extremely devastating which will become reality.

This war is anticipated and planned for by military and civil authorities, and explored in fiction by many authors all around the world. Concepts range from purely conventional scenarios or a limited use of nuclear weapons to the destruction of the planet.

With the development of the arms race, before the collapse of the Soviet Union and end of the Cold War, an apocalyptic war between the United States and the Soviet Union was considered highly likely. The Doomsday Clock has served as a symbol of historic World War III close calls since the Truman Doctrine went into effect in 1947 & 1964. It can be argued that the advent of the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction (M.A.D) has brought about relative global peace since the end of World War II; and has also been shown that modern democracies with nuclear capabilities are unwilling to go to war with each other, as per Democratic peace theory. The potential for an enlarged regional conflict remains present however. As with previous World Wars, the possibility of allied nations being drawn into conflict due to existing treaties recognised under International law remains ever present.

A Possible Future

There have been many warning signs that says things about World War III, but the following information is about the possible future we might have.

South Korea gets taken by North Korea

In the beginning of 2011, South Korea was invaded by the North Korean army. The battle lasted for 2 days and then the North Koreans took over South Korea and they unified the two countries January 10, 2011. Many countries was trying to stop the North Koreans but they feared they may be attacked if they get in the way. South Korea was no more, now it's just Korea.

Early Warning signs

In March of 2011, there have been reports of illegal trading of nuclear weapons between the Russians and the Koreans. The United Nations questioned Russia but they denied it. May of 2011, there was rumors of nuclear testing somewhere in a desert in Africa. The African government was not involved with the testing. The Russians continued to deny the nuclear involvement.

In July, President Obama sent a spy, Richard Clark, to Russia to see if Russia is selling nukes to the Koreans. Richard Clark infiltrated a Russian military base but he was caught. It turned out the Russians weren't housing nukes in their country.

Destruction of New York City

In the morning of September 11, 2011, Korea launched a nuclear attack on America. They dropped a nuclear bomb on New York City. The entire city was wiped out due to the blast of the bomb. 500,000 thousand people was killed from the blast while 80,000 was killed from the radiation from the blast. A second attack occurred in Washington DC, where Russian spies attack the white house and assassinated U.S. president Barack Obama. A third attack happened in Great Britain, where a bomb was detonated in the clock tower London.

Doomsday Begins

After the September 11th attacks on the United States and Great Britain, the United States declared war on the Koreans and the Russians, who later became the Soviet Union once again. Days after the attacks, the terrorist organization that was runned by the later Osama Bin Laden joined the Koreans and the Russians, Iraq later joined, and so did the Germans, who wanted revenge against the United States of America. These nations formed the Global Empire of Conquer, a government wanting world domination. They attacked Japan on Christmas day. The Japanese was later Extinct. Due to the death of the Japanese race, the United Stats, Great Britain, France, and Canada formed the United Nations of Freedom, a government that tries to free countries that were taken by the GEC. Many battles happened in the end of 2011 and mostly 2012. Africa was taken by the GEC after the Battle of Africa in March 2012. The natives there was forced to fight for the GEC. Some people named this war "The Doomsday War".

Apocalypse

After many months of war, the governments can't handle the battles they been going through. On December 21, 2012, the governments launched a nuclear attack on each other, resulting in the deaths of 2 billion humans on the planet. This event was called The Apocalypse, the end of the world, the end of the human race. Many cities was destroyed in the process, many animals and plant life was also destroyed too. On this day, the human race almost went extinct, and only a couple thousand survive the attack.

Aftermath

After the near destruction of the human race, the remaining humans decided to have a new life underground, so they can be safe from the dangerous radiation outside. 20 years later, the radiation went away, and the remaining humans went back on the surface. They realize they have to go back into being hunters in order to survive. The Chimpanzees of Africa gained intelligence from the radiation, they soon begin to use tools, use a language, build cities, and finally build governments. The savage humans were nothing but animals, they don't have power no more. Now the Chimps are now the dominate species on the planet.

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 [[File:Operation Castle - Romeo 001.jpg|thumb|A [[mushroom cloud]], often associated with the nuclear warfare that would be expected of a third world war]]
-'''World War III''' (abbreviated as '''WWIII''', a.k.a. the '''Third World War''') is a term used to refer to a hypothetical future successor to [[World War II|World War&nbsp;II]] (1939–1945).  It is frequently used euphemistically to refer to any massive global conflict or [[nuclear warfare|nuclear war]]. In fiction, the war is often depicted as extremely devastating.
+'''World War III''' (abbreviated as '''WWIII''', a.k.a. the '''Third World War''') is the future successor to [[World War II|World War&nbsp;II]] (1939–1945).  It is frequently used euphemistically to refer to any massive global conflict or [[nuclear warfare|nuclear war]]. In fiction, the war is often depicted as extremely devastating which will become reality.
 This war is anticipated and [[civil defense|planned for]] by military and civil authorities, and explored in [[fiction]] by many authors all around the world. Concepts range from purely conventional scenarios or a limited use of nuclear weapons to [[Doomsday device|the destruction of the planet]].
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 With the development of the [[arms race]], before the [[History of the Soviet Union (1982–1991)#Dissolution of the USSR|collapse of the Soviet Union]] and end of the [[Cold War]], an [[apocalypse|apocalyptic]] war between the United States and the Soviet Union was considered highly likely. The [[Doomsday Clock]] has served as a symbol of historic World War&nbsp;III close calls since the [[Truman Doctrine]] went into effect in 1947 & 1964. It can be argued that the advent of the concept of [[Mutual assured destruction|Mutually Assured Destruction]] (M.A.D) has brought about relative global peace since the end of [[World War II]]; and  has also been shown that modern democracies with nuclear capabilities are unwilling to go to war with each other, as per [[Democratic peace theory]]. The potential for an enlarged regional conflict remains present however. As with previous World Wars, the possibility of allied nations being drawn into conflict due to existing treaties recognised under [[International law]] remains ever present.
-== Possible triggers ==
+== A Possible Future ==
+There have been many warning signs that says things about World War III, but the following information is about the possible future we might have.
-There have been a number of past crises that have been cited, "if this war is not stopped it carries the danger of turning into a third world war."<ref>{{cite web|title= The Nuclear Seduction|publisher=escholarship|url=http://www.escholarship.org/editions/view?docId=ft1n39n7wg&chunk.id=d0e1874&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e1874&brand=ucpress|accessdate=2010-01-16}}</ref>
+=== South Korea gets taken by North Korea ===
-===Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)===
-{{See|Cuban Missile Crisis}}
+{{See|North Korea}}
+In the beginning of 2011, South Korea was invaded by the North Korean army.  The battle lasted for 2 days and then the North Koreans took over South Korea and they unified the two countries January 10, 2011.  Many countries was trying to stop the North Koreans but they feared they may be attacked if they get in the way.  South Korea was no more, now it's just Korea.
-The [[Cuban Missile Crisis]] in 1962 is generally thought to be the historical point at which the risk of World War III was at its greatest.<ref>[http://www.jcs-group.com/military/navy/1962cuban.html Cuban Missile Crisis]. ''Jcs-group.com'', retrieved June 16, 2011</ref>  For example, [[Robert McNamara]] at the Cuban Missile Crisis Havana conference decades later claimed that if it were not for [[Vasili Arkhipov]], who prevented a nuclear launch on the B-59 [[Soviet]] [[submarine]] during the heat of the crisis, World War III would have broken out, saying "A guy called Vasili Arkhipov saved the world."
-===False alarms (1983)===
+=== Early Warning signs ===
+In March of 2011, there have been reports of illegal trading of nuclear weapons between the Russians and the Koreans.  The United Nations questioned Russia but they denied it.  May of 2011, there was rumors of nuclear testing somewhere in a desert in Africa.  The African government was not involved with the testing.  The Russians continued to deny the nuclear involvement.
-[[File:Probable Axes of Attack.jpg|thumb|Probable axes of attack of the [[Warsaw Pact]] through the [[Fulda Gap]] and the [[North German Plain#Military_importance|North German Plain]]s according to the U.S. Army]]
-{{See|Stanislav Petrov|Able Archer 83}}
-On 26 September 1983, a Soviet early warning station under the command of [[Stanislav Petrov]] falsely detected five inbound [[intercontinental ballistic missile]]s. Petrov correctly assessed the situation as a [[false alarm]], and hence did not report his finding to his superiors. According to a report by [[Geoffrey Forden]], published for the [[Cato Institute]], the most likely culprit for the false alarm was the [[Cosmos-1382]] satellite belonging to the [[Oko]] early warning system.<ref>{{cite journal
-| title = Reducing a Common Danger: Improving Russia's Early-Warning System
-| journal = Cato Policy Analysis No. 399
-|date=May 3, 2001
-| author = Geoffrey Forden
-}}</ref>
+In July, President Obama sent a spy, Richard Clark, to Russia to see if Russia is selling nukes to the Koreans.  Richard Clark infiltrated a Russian military base but he was caught.  It turned out the Russians weren't housing nukes in their country.
-During [[Able Archer 83]], a ten-day [[NATO]] [[command post]] [[military exercise|exercise]] starting on November&nbsp;2, 1983, the Soviets readied their nuclear forces and placed air units in [[East Germany]] and [[History of Poland (1945–1989)|Poland]] on alert. Some historians believe this exercise was a close call to a start to World War III.<ref>{{cite news |author=[[John Lewis Gaddis]] and John Hashimoto |title=COLD WAR Chat: Professor John Lewis Gaddis, Historian |url=http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/guides/debate/chats/gaddis |accessdate=2005-12-29}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=RjwilmsiBot}}</ref>
-== Which "World War" ==
+== Destruction of New York City ==
+In the morning of September 11, 2011, Korea launched a nuclear attack on America.  They dropped a nuclear bomb on New York City.  The entire city was wiped out due to the blast of the bomb.  500,000 thousand people was killed from the blast while 80,000 was killed from the radiation from the blast.  A second attack occurred in Washington DC, where Russian spies attack the white house and assassinated U.S. president Barack Obama.  A third attack happened in Great Britain, where a bomb was detonated in the clock tower London.
-The English term ''[[world war]]'' has only seen widespread use since [[World War II|World War&nbsp;II]]. Until then, the first World War had been commonly referred to as "The [[Great War]]," although German biologist and philosopher [[Ernst Haeckel]] wrote this shortly after the start of World War&nbsp;I:
+=== Doomsday Begins ===
-{{cquote|There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared "European War"...will become the first world war in the full sense of the word.
+After the September 11th attacks on the United States and Great Britain, the United States declared war on the Koreans and the Russians, who later became the Soviet Union once again.  Days after the attacks, the terrorist organization that was runned by the later Osama Bin Laden joined the Koreans and the Russians,  Iraq later joined, and so did the Germans, who wanted revenge against the United States of America.  These nations formed the Global Empire of Conquer, a government wanting world domination.  They attacked Japan on Christmas day.  The Japanese was later Extinct.  Due to the death of the Japanese race, the United Stats, Great Britain, France, and Canada formed the United Nations of Freedom, a government that tries to free countries that were taken by the GEC.  Many battles happened in the end of 2011 and mostly 2012.  Africa was taken by the GEC after the Battle of Africa in March 2012.  The natives there was forced to fight for the GEC.  Some people named this war "The Doomsday War".
-''[[The Indianapolis Star]]'' September&nbsp;20, 1914<ref name="yale">''The Yale Book of Quotations'' (2006) [[Yale University Press]], edited by Fred R. Shapiro</ref>}}
+=== [[Apocalypse]] ===
-Serious wars before and after the first two world wars, even those closely associated with them, are not now treated as part of the larger conflict. These include the [[Balkan Wars]] from 1912 to 1913 and the [[Polish–Soviet War]] from 1919 to 1921, the Japanese invasion of [[Manchuria]] and later China, the [[Spanish Civil War]], the Italian invasions of [[Ethiopia]] and [[Albania]], the 1938 German annexation of Austria ([[Anschluss]]), and the subsequent occupation of [[Czechoslovakia]]. Therefore, the specific event where a future World War&nbsp;III begins may only be determined retroactively.
+After many months of war, the governments can't handle the battles they been going through.  On December 21, 2012, the governments launched a nuclear attack on each other, resulting in the deaths of 2 billion humans on the planet.  This event was called The Apocalypse, the end of the world, the end of the human race.  Many cities was destroyed in the process, many animals and plant life was also destroyed too.  On this day, the human race almost went extinct, and only a couple thousand survive the attack.
-=== [[Cold War]] ===
+== Aftermath ==
+After the near destruction of the human race, the remaining humans decided to have a new life underground, so they can be safe from the dangerous radiation outside.  20 years later, the radiation went away, and the remaining humans went back on the surface.  They realize they have to go back into being hunters in order to survive.  The Chimpanzees of Africa gained intelligence from the radiation, they soon begin to use tools, use a language, build cities, and finally build governments.  The savage humans were nothing but animals, they don't have power no more.  Now the Chimps are now the dominate species on the planet.
-Some analysts and historians<ref>{{cite web|title=Right-wing media divided: Is U.S. now in World War III, IV, or V?|url=http://mediamatters.org/research/200607140017|publisher=[[Media Matters for America]]|date=14 July 2006|accessdate=28 February 2011|quote=On the July 10 edition of Fox News' The Big Story, host John Gibson interviewed Michael Ledeen, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and said: "Some are calling the global war on terror something else, something more like World War&nbsp;III." But Ledeen responded: "It's more like World War&nbsp;IV because there was a Cold War, which was certainly a world war...Probably the start of [World War&nbsp;IV] was the Iranian revolution of 1979." Similarly, on the 24 May edition of CNBC's Kudlow and Company, host Lawrence Kudlow, discussing a book by former deputy Under-secretary of Defense Jed Babbin, said: "World War&nbsp;IV is the terror war, and war with China would be World War&nbsp;V.}}</ref> and some [[Neoconservatism|neoconservative]] thinkers, including [[Norman Podhoretz]],<ref>{{cite book|author=Norman Podhoretz|title=''World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism''|publisher=Doubleday|place=New York|year=2008}}</ref> have suggested the Cold War can be identified as World War&nbsp;III because it was fought on a global scale by [[Proxy war|proxy]] combatants of the United States and later [[NATO]], and the [[Soviet Union]] and [[Warsaw Pact]] countries.
-=== [[War on Terror]] ===
-In a 2006 interview, [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[George W. Bush]] likened the ongoing [[War on Terror]] as being like "World War&nbsp;III".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1632213.htm|title=Bush likens 'war on terror' to WWIII|agency=[[Agence France-Presse]]|publisher=[[ABC News]]|date=6 May 2006|accessdate=23 November 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Savage|first=Luiza Ch.|title=World War III?|url=http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20060731_131110_131110|accessdate=28 February 2011|newspaper=[[Maclean's]]|date=25 July 2006|quote=A little more than a month after the [[September 11 attacks|September&nbsp;11 attacks]], [[Eliot A. Cohen|Eliot Cohen]], the director of strategic studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, declared in ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' that the struggle against terrorism was more than a law-enforcement operation, and would require military conflict beyond the invasion of Afghanistan. Cohen, like Marenches, considered World War&nbsp;III to be history. "A less palatable but more accurate name is World War&nbsp;IV," he wrote. "The Cold War was World War&nbsp;III, which reminds us that not all global conflicts entail the movement of multi-million-man armies, or conventional front lines on a map.}}</ref>
-== Popular culture ==
-{{Main|World War III in popular culture}}
-World War III is a common theme in [[popular culture]]. A comprehensive [[Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction|apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction]] literature exists describing its postulated execution and aftermath, and can reach a high, wistful-iconlike timbre, like in [[Alfred Coppel]]'s ''[[Dark December]]''.<ref>Don D’Ammassa: ''Coppel, Alfred''. In: [[Jay P. Pederson]] (ed.): ''St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers''. 4. edition. [[St. James Press]], New York et al 1996, p. 209</ref> Several notable movies have been made based on World War&nbsp;III, which is also the topic of various comics, video games, songs, magazines, radio programs, newspapers, websites, and billboards.
-=== Quotations ===
-{{cquote|''If the Third World War is fought with nuclear weapons, the fourth will be fought with bows and arrows.''|30px|30px|[[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma|Lord Louis Mountbatten]]<ref>{{Cite book | editor-first = Elizabeth | editor-last = Knowles | title = The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 1997 | isbn = 0-19-866229-7 | postscript = <!--None-->}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | editor1-first = Robert | editor1-last = Andrews | editor2-first =Mary | editor2-last = Biggs | editor3-first = Michael | editor3-last = Seidel |title = The Columbia World of Quotations| publisher = Columbia University Press | year = 1996 | isbn = 0-231-10518-5}}</ref>{{When|date=April 2011}}}}
-<!--PLEASE READ: The Einstein books referenced here all use "rocks" instead of "sticks and stones". The "sticks and stones" version is not supported by the book references, so it should not be the main quote. "Sticks and stones" belongs in a footnote, where it is now. -->
-{{cquote|''I know not with what weapons World War&nbsp;III will be fought, but World War&nbsp;IV will be fought with sticks and stones.''|30px|30px|[[Albert Einstein]]<ref>{{Cite book| first = Alice | last = Calaprice | title = The new quotable Einstein | page = 173 | publisher = Princeton University Press | year = 2005 | isbn = 0-691-12075-7}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book| first1 = Alice | last1 = Calaprice |first2=Trevor |last2=Lipscombe|title = Albert Einstein: a biography | page = 124 | publisher = Greenwood Publishing Group | year = 2005 | isbn = 0-313-33080-8}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | first1 = Fred | last1 = Shapiro | first2=Joseph |last2=Epstein|title = The Yale book of quotations | page = 229 | publisher = Yale University Press | year = 2006 | isbn = 0-300-10798-6| url = http://books.google.com/?id=w5-GR-qtgXsC&pg=PA229&lpg=PA229&dq=I+do+not+know+how+the+third+World+War+will+be+fought,+but+I+can+tell+you+what+they+will+use+in+the+Fourth+-+rocks&q=I%20do%20not%20know%20how%20the%20third%20World%20War%20will%20be%20fought%2C%20but%20I%20can%20tell%20you%20what%20they%20will%20use%20in%20the%20Fourth%20-%20rocks | postscript = <!--None-->}}</ref><ref>[http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/329.html A variation of the quote]</ref>{{When|date=April 2011}}}}
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