World War III

World War III (abbreviated WWIII), or the Third World War, is a term used to describe a hypothetical global war waged on or above the scale of World War I or World War II. Some analysts and historians have suggested that the Cold War can be identified as World War III because it was fought although by proxy on a global scale, with the main combatants, the United States and later NATO, and the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries providing political, military and economic support while not... full article at wikipedia