Choose a Player Name Nearly There Log in. Instead, each side fights to the point that facing mutually-assured destruction , they settle into an uneasy ceasefire.

The aliens want to colonize Earth and have nuclear weapons but want to use them only sparingly. They cannot colonize a radioactive wasteland after a full-scale nuclear exchange.

The invasion ultimately ends when all of the major Allied and Axis powers manage to develop their own nuclear weapons, resulting in a stalemate.

The Race is left in control of roughly half the planet, primarily colonial possessions in the Southern Hemisphere : Africa , South and Central America , Australia , and most of Asia aside from the Soviet Union and a few Japanese coastal holdings.

The second series of novels, set in the s, deals with the interaction between surviving humans and the Race. Opening with the arrival of the colonization fleet, the series ends with the defeat of Nazi Germany and the establishment of a permanently-manned US space station in the asteroid belt.

The Germans lose and are forced to allow France to become an independent nation again under a new Fourth Republic. Nonetheless, it is a costly victory for the Race: fighting Germany on its own after 20 years of human technological advancement proved to be much more difficult than fighting all free human nations earlier.

It is left obvious to both sides that long-term trends are in humanity's favor. The Race is also faced with ongoing guerilla wars in much of the territory they conquered, especially by Communists in China and by Islamists in the Arab World.

The Race - confirmed Conservative Monarchists who never developed any concept of Republic, and whose only religion is veneration of their Divine Emperor and the ghosts of past Emperors - find it difficult to understand either Communism or Islam, but can't deny that both are highly effective ideologies motivating humans to fight and cause considerable difficulties to their occupiers.

The reason behind the confrontation was about the occupational status of the German capital city, Berlin , and of post—World War II Germany.

The crisis culminated in the city's de facto partition with the East German erection of the Berlin Wall. This stand-off ended peacefully on 28 October following a US-Soviet understanding to withdraw tanks and reduce tensions.

The Cuban Missile Crisis : a confrontation on the stationing of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, in response to the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion , is considered as having been the closest to a nuclear exchange, which could have precipitated a Third World War.

Despite what many believe to be the closest the world has come to a nuclear conflict, throughout the entire standoff, the Doomsday Clock , which is run by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to estimate how close the end of the world, or doomsday, is, with midnight being the apocalypse, stayed at a relatively stable seven minutes to midnight.

This has been explained as being due to the brevity of the crisis, since the clock monitored more long term factors such as leadership of countries, conflicts, wars, and political upheavals, as well as societies reactions to said factors.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists now credits the political developments resulting from the Cuban Missile Crisis with having actually enhanced global stability.

The Bulletin posits that future crises and occasions that might otherwise escalate, were rendered as more stable due to two major factors:.

The Sino-Soviet border conflict was a seven-month undeclared military conflict between the Soviet Union and China at the height of the Sino-Soviet split in The most serious of these border clashes, which brought the world's two largest communist states to the brink of war, occurred in March in the vicinity of Zhenbao Damansky Island on the Ussuri Wusuli River , near Manchuria.

The conflict resulted in a ceasefire, with a return to the status quo. Critics point out that the Chinese attack on Zhenbao was to deter any potential future Soviet invasions; that by killing some Soviets, China demonstrated that it could not be 'bullied'; and that Mao wanted to teach them 'a bitter lesson'.

China's relations with the USSR remained sour after the conflict, despite the border talks, which began in and continued inconclusively for a decade.

Domestically, the threat of war caused by the border clashes inaugurated a new stage in the Cultural Revolution ; that of China's thorough militarization.

Following the events of , the Soviet Union further increased its forces along the Sino-Soviet border , and in the Mongolian People's Republic.

The Indo-Pakistani War of was a military confrontation between India and Pakistan that occurred during the liberation war in East Pakistan.

The war began with preemptive aerial strikes on 11 Indian Air Force stations, which led to the commencement of hostilities with Pakistan and Indian entry into the war of independence in East Pakistan on the side of Bengali nationalist forces.

The Soviet Union sympathised with the East Pakistanis, and supported the Indian Army and Mukti Bahini 's incursion against Pakistan during the war, in a broader view of recognising that the succession of East Pakistan as Independent Bangladesh would weaken the position of its rivals—the United States and China.

The Soviet Union gave assurances to India that if a confrontation with the United States or China developed, it would take counter-measures.

The United States stood with Pakistan by supporting it morally, politically, economically and materially when U.

President Richard Nixon and his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger refused to use rhetoric in a hopeless attempt to intervene in a large civil war.

The U. Nixon feared that an Indian invasion of Pakistan would mean total Soviet domination of the region, and that it would seriously undermine the global position of the United States and the regional position of America's new tactical ally, China.

Nixon encouraged Jordan and Iran to send military supplies to Pakistan, while also encouraging China to increase its arms supplies to Pakistan, but all supplies were very limited.

The Nixon administration also ignored reports it received of the "genocidal" activities of the Pakistani Armed Forces in East Pakistan, most notably the Blood telegram, and this prompted widespread criticism and condemnation—both by the United States Congress and in the international press.

Bush , introduced a resolution in the United Nations Security Council calling for a cease-fire and the withdrawal of armed forces by India and Pakistan.

However, it was vetoed by the Soviet Union, and the following days witnessed the use of great pressure on the Soviets from the Nixon-Kissinger duo to get India to withdraw, but to no avail.

Enterprise and its escort ships arrived on station on 11 December As the war progressed, it became apparent to the United States that India was going to invade and disintegrate Pakistan in a matter of weeks, therefore President Nixon spoke with the USSR General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev on a hotline on 10 December, where Nixon reportedly urged Brezhnev to restrain India as he quoted: "in the strongest possible terms to restrain India with which … you [Brezhnev] have great influence and for whose actions you must share responsibility.

After the war, the United States accepted the new balance of power and recognised India as a dominant player in South Asia; the US immediately engaged in strengthening bilateral relations between the two countries in the successive years.

The Soviet Union, while being sympathetic to Pakistan's loss, decided to engage with Pakistan after sending an invitation through Rodionov to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who paid a state visit to the Soviet Union in to strengthen bilateral relations that continued over the years.

Israel successfully counterattacked. American and Soviet naval forces came close to firing upon each other. Admiral Murphy of the US reckoned the chances of the Soviet squadron attempting a first strike against his fleet at 40 percent.

A GAO investigation led to the construction of an off-site test facility to prevent similar mistakes. A false alarm occurred on the Soviet nuclear early warning system , showing the launch of American LGM Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles from bases in the United States.

A retaliatory attack was prevented by Stanislav Petrov , a Soviet Air Defence Forces officer, who realised the system had simply malfunctioned which was borne out by later investigations.

During Able Archer 83 , a ten-day NATO exercise simulating a period of conflict escalation that culminated in a DEFCON 1 nuclear strike, some members of the Soviet Politburo and armed forces treated the events as a ruse of war concealing a genuine first strike.

In response, the military prepared for a coordinated counter-attack by readying nuclear forces and placing air units stationed in the Warsaw Pact states of East Germany and Poland under high alert.

However, the state of Soviet preparation for retaliation ceased upon completion of the Able Archer exercises. In response, Russian President Boris Yeltsin was summoned and the Cheget nuclear briefcase was activated for the first and only time.

However, the high command was soon able to determine that the rocket was not entering Russian airspace, and promptly aborted plans for combat readiness and retaliation.

According to theories on the interpretation of the Quran, the holy book of Islam, there will be a complete annihilation of the Muslim countries and even the Bible is believed to predict that the Vatican city is going to end due to a major war brought on due to the Antichrist.

Nearly one-third of the population will die and the rest will suffer. According to some of the predictions, India and China will not take part in this war.

Hence, when almost all the countries will be destroyed, these two countries will be safe. The predictions also state that this war will bring an end to the development of science and when and if the fourth World War takes place, people will have to use trees and twigs as weapons.

These horrifying World War III predictions are sure to send a chill down your spine because who loves war, death and destruction?

Many of these predictions have not come true so far, but the global political and military of the present is far from good. Who knows, these predictions might never come true.

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