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A nuclear holocaust is often associated with World War III.
A nuclear holocaust is often associated with World War III. Nuclear holocaust refers to the possibility of nearly complete annhilation of human Civilization by Nuclear warfare.
For other uses, see World War III (disambiguation).

World War III (abbreviated WWIII), or the Third World War, is a hypothetical term used to describe a global war waged on or above the scale of World War I or World War II. A world war is a War affecting the majority of the world's most powerful and populous nations War is an international relations Dispute, characterized by organized Violence between National Military units World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including

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Cold War

Some analysts[1] and historians[2] have suggested that the Cold War can be identified as World War III because it was fought although by proxy on a global scale, with the main combatants, the United States of America and later NATO, and the USSR and Warsaw Pact countries providing political, military and economic support while not engaging in direct combat. Cold War is the state of conflict tension and competition that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR and their respective allies from the A proxy war is the war that results when two powers use third parties as substitutes for fighting each other directly The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The North Atlantic Treaty The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 The Warsaw Pact (see Nomenclature) was an organization of Communist states in Central and Eastern Europe. [3]

Historical close calls

Before the collapse of the Soviet Union and end of the Cold War, an apocalyptic war between the United States and the USSR was considered plausible. The Soviet Union 's collapse into independent nations began early in 1985 Cold War is the state of conflict tension and competition that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR and their respective allies from the The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 The Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 is generally thought to be the historical point at which the risk of World War III was closest. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba during the Cold War. Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Other potential starts have included the following (see External links below for further examples):

Difficulty in determining a "World War"

The English term "World War" has only seen widespread use during one conflict — World War II. A world war is a War affecting the majority of the world's most powerful and populous nations What is now known as World War I was generally known as the "the European War" while it was in progress, although German troops referred to it as a Weltkrieg, or "World War", throughout, and it was the Germans who show first recorded use of the "first world war". A German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel wrote this shortly after the start of the war:

“There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared "European War". Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel ( February 16, 1834 — August 9, 1919)also written von Haeckel, was an eminent German . . will become the first world war the full sense of the word.

Indianapolis Star September 20, 1914[5]

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This is the first known instance of the term First World War, which previously had been dated to 1931 for the earliest usage. The Indianapolis Star is a daily Newspaper which began publishing on June 6, 1903. Events 451 - The Battle of Chalons takes place in North Eastern France. Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year The term was used again near the end of the war. English journalist Charles A. Repington (1858–1925) wrote:

“[Diary entry, September 10, 1918]: We discussed the right name of the war. Events 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde. Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common I said the we called it now The War, but that this could not last. The Napoleonic War was The Great War. To call it The German War was too much flattery for the Boche. The German people (Deutsche are an Ethnic group, in the sense of sharing a common German culture, descent and speaking the German language as I suggested The World War as a shade better title, and finally we mutually agreed to call it The First World War in order to prevent the millennium folk from forgetting that the history of the world was the history of war.

"The First World War, 1914–1918" (1920)[6]

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Known as The Great War in the 1920s, it ignored the Napoleonic wars as having the dubious honour of being the first to be called the "Great War" although it, like the Cold War, was a collection of coalition conflicts, and not a single continuous conflict as was the Second World War. The Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815 involved Napoleon's French Empire and a shifting set of European allies and opposing coalitions The First Coalition ( 1792 – 1797) was the first major concerted effort of multiple European powers to contain Revolutionary France. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including

It may take years before another major conflict could be arguably recognized as a World War III. It should also be noted that 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. The Balkan Wars were two wars in South-eastern Europe in 1912–1913 in the course of which the Balkan League ( Bulgaria, Montenegro, Greece Manchuria ( Romanized Manchu: Manju,, Маньчжурия Mongolian: Манж is a historical name given to a vast geographic region in northeast China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict in Spain that started after an attempted Coup d'état committed by parts of the army against the government of NOTE This intro is the result of careful NPOV work Please do not make potentially controversial edits to it without first discussing on the talk page This article is about the country in southern Europe For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Albania topics. Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich The ( German: "link-up" also known as the, was the 1938 Annexation of Austria into Greater Germany by the Nazi Czechoslovakia may also refer to what is now the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Therefore, the specific event where a future World War III begins may only be determined retrospectively.

Popular culture

Main article: World War III in popular culture

World War III is also a common theme in popular culture. World War III is a common theme in popular culture Since the 1940s countless books films and television programmes have used the theme of Nuclear weapons and a third Popular culture (or pop culture) is the Culture — patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activities significance and importance — Who might start World War III and how it might start are perennial topics of discussion in press. A vast apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction literature exists describing the postulated aftermath of World War III, several notable movies have been made based on World War III, and it is the topic of various comics, video games, songs, magazines, radio programs, newspapers and billboards.

"I know not what weapons World War III shall be fought with, but I do know that World War IV shall be fought with sticks and stones"[7]

– Albert Einstein

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References

  1. ^ Norman Podhoretz in his World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism
  2. ^ 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 III. Albert Einstein ( German: ˈalbɐt ˈaɪ̯nʃtaɪ̯n; English: ˈælbɝt ˈaɪnstaɪn (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955 was a German -born theoretical A world war is a War affecting the majority of the world's most powerful and populous nations World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including World War III is a common theme in popular culture Since the 1940s countless books films and television programmes have used the theme of Nuclear weapons and a third Cold War is the state of conflict tension and competition that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR and their respective allies from the The Doomsday argument ( DA) is a Probabilistic argument that claims to Predict the Future lifetime of the Human race given only an The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock face maintained since 1947 by the board of directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University A doomsday device is a hypothetical construction &mdash usually a weapon &mdash which could destroy all life on the Earth, or destroy the Earth itself (bringing " This list of nuclear holocaust fiction lists the many works of Speculative fiction that attempt to describe a world during or after a massive nuclear war, or The Morgenthau Plan was a plan for the occupation of Germany after World War II that advocated measures intended to remove Germany's ability to wage war Nuclear disarmament is the proposed dismantling of Nuclear weapons. Nuclear holocaust refers to the possibility of nearly complete annhilation of human Civilization by Nuclear warfare. Since their public debut in August 1945 Nuclear weapons and their potential effects have been a recurring motif in Popular culture " But Ledeen responded that "it's more like World War IV because there was a Cold War, which was certainly a world war. " Ledeen added that "probably the start of it [World War IV] was the Iranian revolution of 1979. " Similarly, on the May 24 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 IV is the terror war, and war with China would be World War V. "[1]
  3. ^ 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, a little more than a month after the attacks on the twin towers and the Pentagon, 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 III to be history. "A less palatable but more accurate name is World War IV," he wrote. "The Cold War was World War III, which reminds us that not all global conflicts entail the movement of multi-million-man armies, or conventional front lines on a map. " [2]
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  5. ^ "The Yale Book of Quotations" (2006) Yale University Press, edited by Fred R. Yale University Press is a book Publisher founded in 1908. It became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but remained Shapiro
  6. ^ "The Yale Book of Quotations" (2006) Yale University Press, edited by Fred R. Yale University Press is a book Publisher founded in 1908. It became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but remained Shapiro
  7. ^ Calaprice, Alice (2005), The new quotable Einstein, Princeton University Press, p. 173, ISBN 0-691-12075-7  Other versions of the quote exist, substituting "sticks and stones" for rocks.

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World War III

-proper noun

  1. A hypothetical world war following World War II.
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