World War III

> The nations were angry, and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your people who revere your name, both great and small—and for destroying those who destroy the earth.
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> Revelation 18

The causes for World War III vary among sources, with the first agreed upon major incident being a false alarm that caused multiple U.S. bombers and missile interceptors to launch from Volks Air Field, WI.

Conflict
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During a false alarm reportedly caused by a faulty alarm system, multiple nuclear-armed planes, varying between B-52s, Nuclear Interceptors, and SAC B-47s would launch from Volks Air Field, WI, targeting various military bases and infrastructure centers across the Warsaw Pact. Eventually, the planes were shot down and destroyed by anti-air guns after entering East Germany, resulting in the largest international incident since the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Presuming that the United States had attempted a first strike attack, the Soviet Union would launch multiple 10 - 1000 kiloton nuclear missiles from Cuban missile sites, targeted towards military and civilian centers alike across North America and Western Europe. Air Force One was reportedly boarded around this time, the United States government beginning a Continuity of Operations plan and dispersing to various bunkers across the United States.
The Royal Air Force of the United Kingdom reported approximately 500 nuclear missiles entering NATO airspace during their operational state, with the number reportedly 'increasing rapidly' before radar communications were destroyed. A counter-attack by the United States government would launch an unknown amount of nuclear weapons towards various nuclear weapon centers in the Eastern Bloc, along with population centers, thus concluding major nuclear exchange.

*Associated Press teletype reports from October 25, 1962, as received in the Lake Ozark Reporter-Telegram room.*
AP103 :FLASH
WASHINGTON (AP) - US PLANES SHOT DOWN IN WARSAW PACT AIRSPACE WHITE HOUSE EVACUATED. DEVELOPING
AP104: \*\*FLASH\*\* \*\*FLASH\*\* WASHINGTON (AP) - US AND UK RADAR SYS DETECT MULTIPLE MISSILES INBOUND, ORDERS TO EVACUATE US GOVERNMENT GIVEN, STATUS OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY AND FAMILY UNKNOWN, DEVELOPING
AP105:
FLASH
DENVER (AP)-NUCLEAR MISSILES REPORTEDLY INBOUND TO MULTIPLE US POPULATION CENTERS, US GOV'T AND PRES. KENNEDY EVACUATED TO UNKNOWN LOCATION DEVELOPING
AP106
ANCHORAGE(AP) - ELMENDORF AFB FIGHTERS SCRAMBLING PRESUME HEADING FOR SOVIET UNION LOCAL TRAFFIC COMPLETELY STOPPED DEVELOPING
AP107 LOS ANGELES (AP) - PANIC IN LOS ANGELES DEVELOPING STORES AND HOUSES LOOTED, FALLOUT SHELTERS ESTABLISHED IN METROS.
AP108
PENASCOLA(AP) EGLIN AND HURLBURT AFBS DESTROYED BY JOINT NUCLEAR STRIKES OF UNKNOWN MAGNITUDE FROM NUCLEAR SILOS IN CUBA
AP109
CHICAGO (AP)- ALL RADIO AND TELEVISION BROADCASTS OVERTAKEN BY CONELRAD ALERTS, SCOTT AFB SPOKESPERSON CONFIRMS NUCLEAR STRIKES INBOUND INFIGHTING AND RIOTS THROUGHOUT THE STREETS
AP110 CHARLOTTE NC (AP) - VIOLENCE ON HIGHWAY I-85 AFTER MAYOR GIVES ORDER TO EVACUATE CITY.
[AP111-113 were not found by researchers and are presumably missing.]

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Minutes after the first nuclear strikes were reported, multiple American cruisers and destroyers were reported to be en-route to Cuba to seize major cities and military centers, with most of them reported to arrive in Cuban waters at around thirty minutes to an hour into the conflict.

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Cuba would evacuate Havana, Matanzas, and Varadero as by 2:30 local time American ships were visible. Refugees would begin prepare to pour into neutral countries. Citizens of those countries like Switzerland, Chile, and South Africa would brace for impact as the living prices would explode in no time.

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Aftermath
Most sources report the aftermath of World War III to be the most destructive part of the conflict, with the majority of deaths that were directly and indirectly caused by environmental and urban destruction taking place after the war. No exact figure on the amount of casualties in the aftermath has been estimated, with studies to estimate the casualties being practically impossible.