Will they be world war 3?

Question

Bonus - How much damage will a nuke do?

Answer 1

I'd say it already started...the pre-lude was 9/11 attack on America. Act I was the US invasion of Iraq.

Act II will be a middle east conflagaration around Israel,Palestine,Syria,Iran axis.

Act III - while US is busy defending Israel, North Korea will take the opportunity to invade the South and China will takeover Taiwan...leading to nuclear showdown similar to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Act IV - will be the breakdown of the "system", loss in confidence of US economy, long gas lines at the pump, Constitutional rights abolished

Act V - the end...who knows how it will end, but Einstein said World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones....

Nukes have various yields, from .3kilotons in some artillery up to 500 kilotons in the strategic nukes. The Soviets once built a 100 megaton but disabled it after detonating one of them at 50meg yield range during the 60s. Damage depends on air burst vs. ground burst, lay of the land and buildings.

Answer 2

I would think there will be a World War Three at some point. At the minute it looks as if Iran and other Middle Eastern states could be involved in it. There is also North Korea and China in the Far East to worry about. Plus Russia seems to be discontent as well.

Any nuke will do a massive amount of damage, how much depends on a lot of variables. You need to be more specific with that question.

Answer 3

Bound to be. It's the nature of the beast. We are destined not to learn from the mistakes of others, and therefore, will make the same mistakes ourselves. However, my belief is that the next World War WILL be caused by (a) religion. It has happened before (Crusades) and will happen again. Only this time, the weapons are bigger and more destructive.

As to how much damage a 'nuke' will do will depend on its size and type. A weapon in the kilotonne range will take out 1 - 2 city blocks (a square mile or so). In the megatonne range, your city is gone.

In military terms, kilotonne weapons are refered to as 'tacticle weapons'. In the megatonne range they are refered to as 'theatre weapons'.

If a 'dirty' bomb is employed, then buildings will survuve but all living things in its radius will die slowly and horribly.

Personally speaking, if nukes are used in the future, I want to be sitting right on ground zero.

I thank you

Answer 4

Usually World Wars are caused by Nation-States. Groups like Al Qaeda are just proxy to any nation/country. If we there was to be a World War the thought of mutual destruction would be a strong deterrant but to a crazy Mujahadin. Not so much.

A nuclear weapon can destroy a large city or an even greater area and leave radioactive fall out over a large region

Answer 5

In a war there is a winner and a looser. the purpose of a war should be to make sure the opposition does comply to your orders and when this happens the purpose of the war is completed. If you nuke the world there is no one that is asking to comply and do the compliance. At present no body wants nuke the world but they wants orders to be complied to.

Answer 6

Well, if the news doesn't stop telling these big lies and fairy tails like they are then yes there could be but if people would take the time to see what all the lies that has been on the news about the war over there then may-be there wouldn't be a WWlll

Answer 7

I have to agree with EFW to a point. Where I disagree is that it started way before 9-11. I started with the bombing of our emabassies, the bombing of our ships in other ports and what about the world trade center before the 9-11. People, wake and smell the coffee. WE ARE AT WAR.

Answer 8

Yes and no, war needs to be declared to count as official on record- the Cold War was not declared, it was a war of intimidation and political power.
The reason being there couldn't be another world war is because there's a system, [The United Nations], to retrograde the declaration of a worldwide conflict, however you could continue to count the fight against terrorist organisations as a world war if almost every country was affected by it?

Answer 9

There will be a WW3 of course. No matter what you think, do or say there will be wars.
In regards to what damage a nuke would do, a bloody lot.
We need to keep nukes away from the mad mullahs and other nutters and do it NOW.

Answer 10

If the current trend of the dangerous rise of Islamic Radicalism was not contained, then the answer to your question will be YES. The conflict will be in between the free world and the evil forces of radicalism and extremisms.
A nuclear war at this modern age is catastrophic to the human race, in WWII, the world had witnessed the wrath of the nuclear bomb in Japan, how much more this time.