What do you think will trigger World War III?

Question

It's a shame that we are forced to take history class because we are supposed to learn from the past, yet most people never do. The time seems so right for a 3rd world war to happen. The middle east is a huge mess with tensions growing every day. The U.S. has alienated many of it's allies and probably has created more enemy's in the last 5 years then ever before. North Korea wants nuclear weapons, the PRC desperatly wants to have more world influence, power, and it is obvious they are planning something against the Republic of China. Africa has continued to be just a HUGE mess filled with genocide, diesease and barbaric dictators. What do you think will be the actual trigger? I think that it will either be a U.S. attack agianst Iran or a PRC invasion of Taiwan.

Answer 1

I think it has already started. The Middle East countries that are attacking or want to attack Israel is the war.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, WWIII will be global suicide, therefore in answer to your question, as long as there's rational superpowers who believe in MAD, there will be no WW3. By definition, the next world war wil be nuclear, how could it not. In a nuclear war there will be no winner. In a nuclear world, the only true enemy is war itself.

The next World War will involve a nuclear exchange, how could it not if both sides believe no price for victory will be too high. In the first 30 minutes, nearly a billion people will have been vaporised, mostly in the US, Russia, Europe, China and Japan. Another 1.5 billion will die shortly thereafter from radiation poisoning. The northern hemisphere will be plunged into prolonged agony and barbarity.

Eventually the nuclear winter will spread to the southern hemisphere and all plant life will die. You ask what country would be victorious, you are asking when will we commit global suicide. My answer is it won't happen soon because the larger superpowers are more rational than the rump states in the middle east.

While we hear talk of a nuclear-Iran or a confrontation with NorKor, little is said about the 2 bulls in the glass shop. The arsenals of Russia and the US are enough to destroy a million Hiroshimas. But there are fewer than 3000 cities on the Earth with populations of 100,000 or more. You cannot find anything like a million Hiroshimas to obliterate. Prime military and industrial targets that are far from cities are comparatively rare. Our biggest threat is from an accidental launch by the Russians.

At the point of global suicide, it doesn't matter who is on what side.... In a nuclear age like i said before, the only true enemy is war itself.

Answer 3

The problem is that the trigger will probably be something totally unforseeable.
The opportunities are there and all it takes is one person in the right place at the wrong time. To start a chain of events that will be unstoppable.

Answer 4

Proably after terroist or some other country detonate a nuclear bomb in america or the allied countries of america

Answer 5

it won't even be a war,turkey's aggression will put an end to O.P.E.C. and i feel it is time to put and end to all middle east as it has been since the end of the ottoman empire and hand it over to japan and south korea to control in a bushida-type fashion,oil fields,prices-everything

Answer 6

I think WWIII would start after islamic terrorists detonate some kind of nuclear device in America and we respond "appropriately."

Answer 7

I don't think there will be a WW3 just for the simple fact if there was there would be nothing left. The earth would be one big nuke dump lol

Answer 8

Some country getting and using a Nuke

Answer 9

Iran attacking Israel.

Answer 10

A warmonger president, his puppet master, and the cast of charactors....oh wait.....that would be the "play" that's going on right now in Washington, DC. We're about half a step away right now!