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Originally Posted by ottopottomouse
It will happen, only takes one mentally unstable dictator to start it and there's no shortage of them. Personally i'd much rather go from alive to cremated in half a second than be around for the aftermath.
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Would another World War even be necessary?
There are several countries with the power to practically wipe the map. Each of these countries would never want to do so, they aren't that nuts. So the countries with the potential to attempt starting a World War are limited to those with nuclear capabilities and "nuts" at the helm... so we are talking about places like Pakistan, North Korea, Syria, Iran, maybe even Israel. Or one could even argue a rogue scientist selling the technology to another nut bag state. And that's fair enough.
So a nut bag state has nukes. How many do they have? Minimal. One, three, maybe ten at a long shot?
Nut bag state with ten nukes against any given nuke world power with hundreds, even thousands. Would China defend North Korea? Unlikely. Would Russia defend Iran? Unlikely.
Technology and the vast disproportion of world power, I think, would hasten the possibility of a WW3. Anything is always possible... I just can't picture a short term scenario where WW3 would even take place.