Your "favorite" World War III?

Your favorite causes for WW 3

  • Anything right after WW 2 - preferably in Europe

    Votes: 13 13.0%
  • Deluxe version of the Korean War

    Votes: 13 13.0%
  • 1953 East Germany, 1956 Hungary, 1956 Poland etc.

    Votes: 11 11.0%
  • Suez Crisis turning hot

    Votes: 12 12.0%
  • Other Middle East turning hot

    Votes: 9 9.0%
  • Cuban Missile Crisis turning hot

    Votes: 25 25.0%
  • 1968 CSSR, 1981 Poland without martial law etc.

    Votes: 3 3.0%
  • I'd have a nice WW3 scenario for the détente 1970s

    Votes: 3 3.0%
  • Afghanistan, Reagan, No Stanislav Petrov at work in 1983 etc.

    Votes: 15 15.0%
  • Gorbachev is somehow couped and then... ouch!

    Votes: 17 17.0%
  • Damn, you forgot Asia.

    Votes: 12 12.0%
  • I blame Thande for the Third Global War

    Votes: 24 24.0%

  • Total voters
    100
So many times I have read about PODs that were IOTL calmed enough to avoid World War III.
And at least on the net people made numerous WW3 plots involving different PODs.

But any judgement about the outcome and aftermath of WW3 is similar to any judgement about Nazi victorious timeline.
You can't judge without know when, how and why.

So what's your favorite version of WW3, concerning the IOTL delayed causes?
And what are the general trends and structures? WW3 in the 1950's still seems way different to a 1980's WW3 to me.
 

NomadicSky

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I don't see that I really can have something as horrible as a World War be my favorite thing.

However if it's going to happen. Then a WW3 right after WW2 the US has the bomb the USSR would be crushed. Europe might never really recover :(.
 
The obvious choice is the Cuban Missile Crisis, but the Berlin Airlift/Blockade is underrated as a potential WWIII crisis IMHO.

Other then that the Yom Kippur War is another international crisis which could have led to WWIII.
 
I'd like a Cold War turning hot scenario where nukes were only used conventionally. I doubt either side would pick the option "kill billions of them, they kill billions of us."

That just seems more down-to-earth to me.
 
Sino-American Cold War Turns Hot

Pressed to the wall a series of miscalculations turns a tense struggle for resources and economic dominance into the worlds worst nightmare.
 
1986ish with no Gorby. And I want US or the Brittish operate at least a brigade size unit in Sibiria.

Or just an ordinary Sino-Soviet border war with as fixed positions as possible and nukes as unimportant as possible.
 
I voted for Cuban Missile Crisis and 1983

There were only a few instances when WW3 might have been started on purpose; there have been LOTS of instances when it could have been started by accident. I think an accidental start is the most likely, and the 1983 option was the only one that included that.
 
My personal choice was the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, having lived near several targets then. I can still remember not sleeping at nights wondering if I would still be alive in the morning . . .

Made me an Anti-war activist that I still am. And I was 14 at the time.

Bobindelaware
 
Being a Twilight: 2000 and Morrow Project gamer, I chose the Gorbachev coup succeeding although the "Cuban Missile Crisis" goes hot is a close second.
 
My personal choice was the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, having lived near several targets then. I can still remember not sleeping at nights wondering if I would still be alive in the morning . . .

Made me an Anti-war activist that I still am. And I was 14 at the time.

Bobindelaware

What was weird about the Cuban Missile crisis in my family is my father got his final discharge from the Army. He served from 1955 to 57 and back then, you were placed on inactive reserve for something like 5 years after that where you're a civilian but can get called up anytime during a crisis. Mom was scared he was going to get called up. I was born in 1966 so if things went hot, most likely, I would have never been born or born as someone else.
 
I will choose Cuban Missile Crisis. If Khrushchev didn't listen the US pressure, I think USSR through Cuba will detonate a nuclear missile bomb in Florida or maybe as far as New York City. The result is much destruction to the US economy.
 
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