
Wiping out a third of humanity must just be too much for writers to resist. It's rare to find a piece of fiction set Twenty Minutes Into the Future that could resist the temptation to slap a global war into the middle of the twenty minutes. A more modern take on WWIII is that it begins somewhere in the Middle East Israel, Iran, India and Pakistan may be involved. If the show was made before 1989, Communists are involved, even if the war is supposedly set years after 1989. Of course, it's entirely possible for the war to kill everybody, and have it center on the attendees to Humanity's Wake. If not, the winner might set up a One World Order, in which our heroes fight against The Government in a dystopian Cyberpunk type environment. ( This is grossly inaccurate.) If the destruction gets too out of hand it might result in The End of the World as We Know It, causing an After the End situation set on a Scavenger World. A commonly-used Gallows Humor joke is about this war's length somewhere around an hour. Weapon of Mass Destruction are probably going to get used, often recklessly, causing massive casualties. So it's probably only natural that the next great global conflict is a popular subject in Speculative Fiction. Luckily for humanity World War III has been in Development Hell for more than half a century now - and may it stay there. For almost the entire twentieth century it seemed like humanity was teetering on the brink of self-destruction: both World Wars, the Cold War, and then the threat of terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and biological warfare - and all that after World War I (alternatively known as The Great War) was going to be " The War to End All Wars". Some psychologists believe humans are naturally predisposed towards violence.

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