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Apr 16, 2024 · Earlier this year, UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps warned the world could be engulfed by wars involving China, Russia, North Korea and Iran in the next five years, and said we are moving "from a post-war to pre-war world".
May 19, 2021 · Here's What You Need to Remember: China and the United States will likely remain fixated on each other as potential military competitors for decades to come—but if relations are prudently ...
Mar 9, 2022 · In the case of China, the world’s second largest superpower, it’s unclear—even though the Chinese Communist Party has been critical of the U.S.’s role in the conflict, suggesting that NATO encroachment has provoked Russia, Cross says. Mai’a Cross, the Edward W. Brooke Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Northeastern.
Jan 27, 2023 · A four-star Air Force general sent a memo on Friday to the officers he commands that predicts the U.S. will be at war with China in two years and tells them to get ready to prep by firing "a...
- The Threat of World War III
- Safeguards Against World War III
- The Moscow–Washington Hotline
- The Pivotal Year
- Brushes with Fate
- Additional Resources
- Bibliography
World War II ended soon after nuclear bombs were dropped on Hiroshima brought about the first possibility of nuclear annihilation in human history. The proliferation of nuclear weapons then gave rise to the potential for an exchange of atomic bombs and later intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), according to the U.S. National Park Servicecapa...
The U.S. and Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis, in 1962, according to the Office of the Historian. One of the big challenges facing the leaders of both nations was the slow and unreliable channels of communication between the two leaders, President John F. Kennedy and Chairman Nikita Khrushchev, according...
As early as 1954, the Soviet government suggested the implementation of safeguards against an accidental nuclear exchange, and nearly a decade later, on June 20, 1963, the Soviet and U.S. governments signed the Memorandum of Understanding Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Regarding the Establishment of...
According to Hermiston, a nuclear arms race between the world's superpowers began in 1953, and prompted safeguards to be put in place. By the early 1950s, the development of nuclear weapons with far greater destructive capacity than the first bombs were in various stages of research and deployment, particularly the hydrogen bomb. "1953 was the year...
Since its inception, the Moscow–Washington hotline has been utilized on several occasions, providing that vital link between the Kremlin, the White House and the Pentagon. The hotline, sometimes referred to as "MOLINK" according to the New York Times archive, was reportedly activated during the Six Day War of 1967, the Indo–Pakistani War of 1971, t...
To learn more about how close we are to World War III, listen to this discussion from Boston University. Additionally, to explore the history of nuclear weapons, visit the website of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
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Feb 22, 2024 · While China may be the closest thing the U.S. has to a Soviet-level rival, it remains to be seen whether the country will actually rise to such heights. “Down the road, China and the U.S. might engage in a world war,” Castillo said.
