20 Ways the World Could End

“The nightmare of nuclear war in Europe - a spectre that haunted the world for half a century - stood revealed yesterday in terrible detail.

In a historic break with the past, Poland's newly elected government threw open its top secret Warsaw Pact military archives - including a 1979 map revealing the Soviet bloc's vision of a seven-day atomic holocaust between Nato and Warsaw Pact forces.

The defence minister, Radek Sikorsky, showed off the map at an emotional press conference.



He described it as a "personally shattering experience", pointing to a long line of nuclear mushroom clouds neatly stamped along the Vistula, where Soviet bloc commanders assumed that Nato tactical nuclear weapons would rain down to block reinforcements arriving from Russia.

About two million Polish civilians would die in such a war, and the country would be all but wiped off the face of the Earth, he said.

On the map, western Europe lay beneath a chilling overlay of large red mushroom clouds: Warsaw Pact nuclear strikes, using giant warheads to compensate for their relative lack of precision.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/26/war26.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/11/26/ixportal.html”

“The movie Chicken Little has the REM song, "It's The End of The World As We Know It." It sounds weird to hear my 5 year old son singing that song.”

“99 Red Balloons
On the Beach
Alas Babylon”

“or......

they could just pull the plug and let all the air out”

“That graphic merely shows the first couple hours of a European War that might have occurred at anytime from the 50's thru the 80's and still could.

Ever see the movie 'War Games', I think it is,

where any and all possible limited initial scenarios were modelled to quickly escalate to apocalyptic levels.
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“Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!”

“I liked the movie "War Games"...playing Tic Tac Toe with the computer.

In reference to the thread title; huge asteroid slamming into earth, polar ice cap melting creating huge flooding or an ice age...there's dozens of ways.”