Other works of fiction imagine future World Wars (e.g., World War 7).
The 2011 film X-Men: First Class, for instance, features a villain engineering the Cuban Missile Crisis in hopes of inciting WW3. Russian president Vladimir Putin began attacking Ukraine in the early hours of February 24, 2022. In popular media, WW3 is often used for dramatic effect, providing plots, backdrops, or various tropes in action movies and political thrillers. The war in Ukraine continues after the Russian invasion in February 2022 Credit: Reuters Will there be World War 3 As tensions between Russia and the West continue to rise, many fear the crisis in Ukraine could develop into a wider armed conflict. In colloquial speech and writing, WW3 is often humorously used as hyperbolic reaction to a small annoyance (e.g., If he breaks my pencil one more time, I’m gonna start WW3.). In contemporary political commentary, many cite WW3 to criticize a politician’s foreign policy, a common example in the late 2010s including “President Trump’s tweets will start WW3.” Some experts, however, have argued that the Cold War or War on Terror already constituted a WW3. WW3 is often imagined as the world being on the brink of nuclear annihilation, wiping out humanity once and for all. and China, the world’s leading superpowers, have also been cast as WW3 in the 2000s. In geopolitics, the term has been especially used in reference to a conflict with Iran and North Korea amid their efforts to develop nuclear weapons. Since then, many have imagined a WW3 to invoke possible global conflicts on the scale of the first and second World Wars. and Soviet Union threatened nuclear annihilation, often referred to as World War III. Use of WW3 ramped up after World War II when the Cold War (1947–1991) between the U.S. They feared that World War II would end without an utter defeat of Germany. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill started actively planning for World War III while World War II was still ongoing. Time magazine used the term World War III in 1941 before Pearl Harbor was bombed. President Franklin Roosevelt formally called the Nazi assault on Europe World War II in 1941, helping to cement the term.Ĭonsiderations of a possible World War III, often shortened to WW3 in the 1990s–2000s, emerged before the U.S. The term World War II (1939–1945) was mentioned in a speculative article as early as 1919 in the UK’s Manchester Guardian. Before the rise of Nazism in the 1930s, journalists and politicians discussed a second global war as World War II after the Great War, retroactively named World War I (1914–18).
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