World War III 

Overview 

In World War III, both sides are expected to use nuclear weapons as their primary weapons.

Cold War 

Generally speaking, it refers to a total war caused by the confrontation of powers such as the First and Second World Wars , in which a superpower confronts each other directly and involves a large world war (the United States and the Soviet Union). Direct confrontation) was virtually called. United States and the Soviet Union is the number that is too much even destroy all mankind nuclear warheads have, because it was Niramia' in the form of "cold war".

Especially during the time when the US-Soviet confrontation reached its peak, such as the Korean War , the Vietnam War , and the Cuban crisis , there was a serious discussion among experts about the possibility of an outbreak and measures to avoid it .

In addition, necessarily strategic nuclear weapons does not mean only the entire use of has been assumed, the Warsaw Pact is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was to dominate the (NATO) main battle tanks invaded Western Europe, in the course of tactical nuclear weapons is limited use A scenario was also envisioned. In the invasion plan in 1979 released by the Polish government in 2005 after the Cold War, it was planned to drop tactical nuclear weapons in Denmark , the Netherlands , Belgium, and West Germany to advance the Warsaw Pact's ground forces to the Rhine in 7 days. In that case, NATO side was supposed to drop tactical nuclear weapons into Poland 

Post Cold War 

In a specific book, there are books that refer to the existing Cold War and battles and wars after the terrorist attacks in the United States as World War. Depending on the context, the Cold War itself may be regarded as one war, and may be expressed as a "third world war." In another context, the “war on terrorism”. George · W · Bush 43rd US president is, 2006 May 5, was broadcast on CNBC in an interview in, it was the first to express the war on terrorism as "World War III" 

Bush also said at a press conference on October 17, 2007, " Iran 's nuclear weapons could cause World War III." As of 2009, Israel was said to be considering an attack on Iran to prevent Iran from possessing nuclear weapons . 

At the beginning of the 21st century , " asymmetrical war " against terrorism and guerrillas is becoming the mainstream of war. The distinction between wartime and peacetime in asymmetric battles is ambiguous.

2014 The Pope Francisco is Misa as a metaphor of speech in, sometimes expressed concern and has begun already is World War III 

Cases that could develop into World War III 

Assuming main offensive axis when Warsaw Pact forces invade West Germany

Various incidents may have caused the Third World War. The cases in which the possibility is stated are listed below.

1948 - 1949 Berlin Blockade

1950 - 1953 Korean War

UN Commander MacArthur Korea insisted on the invasion and use of nuclear weapons within the territory of the People's Republic of China, which is a substantial participating nation . Since China at that time had a military alliance with the Soviet Union, an invasion into the Chinese territory could lead to Soviet participation. Escalation was evaded by the unwillingness of the United States to dismiss MacArthur.

1956 - 1957 Suez Crisis

1958- Aid Memoire (USSR demands US end West Berlin occupation), Second Taiwan Strait crisis

1960 - 1975 Vietnam War

1960 - U-2 shot down incident

1961 - Kennedy = Khrushchev talks (the Soviet Union to the United States Berlin request the neutrality of)

1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis , Kunimitsu plan

1967 - US military intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) surveillance radar is magnetic storms failure in. Prepared for an attack by misidentifying it as Soviet interference.

1968 - Pueblo incident

1969 - 1969 EC-121 shootdown incident , Sino-Soviet border conflict

1973 - Yom Kippur War

1979 - North American Aerospace Defense Command incorrectly (NORAD) is all-out attack by the Soviet Union is displayed.

1980- ICBM Titan II erroneously enters firing sequence during training at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita , USA .

1983

Stanislav Petrov 's nuclear war avoidance case (Soviet surveillance satellite falsely detects a nuclear missile attack from the United States)

Able Archer 83 Exercise (Soviet Union misinterpreted NATO 's nuclear missile launch exercise as disguised as a real nuclear attack)

1984 - We begin bombing in five minutes ( Ronald Reagan has issued black jokes incident)

1995 - Norwegian rocket incident ( Russia , Norway and meteorological rocket was mistaken for an American nuclear missiles, consider the hit before retaliatory nuclear attack)

2014 - Crimean crisis, eastern Ukraine dispute ( described below )

2020 - Baghdad International Airport attack incidents ( described below )

In the Cuban crisis, which was said to have been the most dangerous of the above, a nuclear attack command was actually issued accidentally, and the judgment of the scene (the defcon level was not at the time of combat, but at the time of semi-combat below (And others, etc.), the nuclear missile launch had been stopped at the waterfront  . Although unofficial, both the US Army and the former Soviet Army are actually starting the nuclear weapon launch sequence due to accidents and misorders. Nuclear weapons and warheads mounted capable ballistic missile is China , North Korea , India , Pakistan , Israel has also held such, is not Saleh wipe possibility of accidental nuclear war (World War III).