Yes, there will probably be another World War in the future. I don't think it will be a nuclear exchange, nukes make the target area unlivable for decades and make you look really bad. Communications and cyberwarfare as additions to conventional troops are already becoming the future.
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nope,more likely some reliogous will nuts get hold of a nuke. If that happens and they use one, then it is unpredictable how the West would react. Islam itself might cease to exist and they might try and ban religion seeing as it could be deamed the core of the problem.
There's a famous quote by Albert Einstein (or at least attributed to him, it's hard to tell what's really from his mouth with all the misattributions he receives) that says something to the effect of "I know not what weapons World War III will be fought with, but I know that World War IV will be fought with rocks and sticks."
Banning religion? Sounds like the plot of a terrible Sci-Fi Dystopian novel.
All but the most myopic and idiotic of Western leaders would see that banning Islam (if it were even possible) won't solve the problem, just worsen it.
Not to defend Islamic terrorists, but a major reason why they're doing what they're doing is that they feel threatened by the West, and a global "ban" on Islam or religion in general would only strengthen their cause.
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A third world war is statistically inevitable. Human conflict on a national scale is constant, and will eventually spill over in to war. In this highly globalized age, no one could stay "neutral" in the traditional Swiss sense. It'll likely not be nuclear, as the a "World War" is going to involve at least one nuclear nation squaring off against others. MAD would only result in very... very extreme circumstances; religious fanatics, political zealots etc. By definition, a world war needs only a large majority of major nations to be involved in a conflict with one another. It doesn't need to be nuclear, or even as costly or epic as WWII.
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Maybe. There are some missing Soviet nukes but those are old. Getting them in working condition might be hard and moving them discreetly seems almost impossible.
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Our past has taught us that war is inevitable. As the world becomes smaller and nations become more united in foreign policies then it becomes more an more likely that a nations conflict with another can easily spiral out of control into a world war. Although, even when we consider how easily a world war can happen i don't think we'll see one anytime soon but i'm sure there are wars on the horizon, wars that may very well affect the world. I'm sure the next large scale war will involve sophisticated bio warfare. I think it's more likely that you will see warfare in the way of natural disasters that essentially cripple a nation. These disasters will appear as natural but are actually an attack. you could see something like an EMP knocking out a countries entire electrical grid, some type of weather manipulation, bio warfare..,etc.
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Widespread conflict precipitated by the ecological crisis is a distinct possibilty, but struggle between 2 blocs of allies seems unlikely. The political factors that generated the first two wars are not going to repeat themselves either, colonial rule and the rivalry between imperialistic nations have ended, even considering imperialism has survived in different forms, such rivalry is considered absent in most current political analysis such as superimperialism. Nuclear war is also unlikely.
Depending on your perspective WWIII already happened.
The Seven Years War (or in America the French and Indian War) was fought on several continents and involved almost all of the World's Great powers at the time in some form or another.
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Impossible?? Not at all, especially if certain groups or countries get hold one, and don´t know how to deal with it.
If you see the testimonies in the "CNN air Live Broadcast of UFO-Nukes Disclosure." thread, where nuclear weapons were being messed with by unknown presences then it becomes apparent that these things arn´t
I wonder if any group the person who is "on the button" would go that far and actually wipe out some city, so many lives etc. And if such a device was activated and the perpertrators were unknown, how would a nuclear power like the USA react?
Generally if you screw with a nuke it simply fails to go off. They're precision devices not volatile explosives.
Now, yes, if someone steals one I guess they might bump the big red button that instantly sets it off (those crazy military engineers and their wacky hi-jinks).
Seemed more like the missiles were being tampered with to me. If a mysterious group sets off a nuke that wouldn't be an accident anyway.
If a nuke just suddenly went off somewhere in the world?
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I love how there's seemingly a notion that if any nuke goes off anywhere for any reason all nations packing atomic heat will reflexively fire off all their nukes in random directions.
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Not at all, especially if certain groups or countries get hold one, and don´t know how to deal with it. 
