World War III (UWF)

The Third World War (referred to commonly as World War III or WWIII) was a global war which was initiated by the United States' reaction to the under the leadership of President Richard Dudley, and ended with a global power vacuum which resulted in the fall of nearly every government which had proper territorial control existing at the time. The world's population of 3.2 billion at the time was reduced to only an estimated 330 million by the end of the war, making it the single most devastating war in recorded human history. It was the second and last war in which nuclear weapons were utilized, and afterwards much of the continent of Asia became uninhabitable along with severe consequences on ecosystems in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It was the only war in recorded history in which fighting related to the conflict took place across all seven continents and in three different oceans.

Much of the Third World War is characterized by the Soviet global invasions and the resultant failure of that nation's government to properly estimate the scale of the conflict they had created. While the fault of the war is usually placed upon extreme anti-communist movements within the United States, it is recognized by historians that the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China were both equally responsible for their aggression against both other nations and each other. By the end of 1987, it was believed that the war's effects on human society had almost been entirely erased, though ecological consequences continue to exist in the present day, as most of East Asia remains inhospitable to human existence and many oceanic species in the Indian and Pacific Oceans are now extinct due to radioactive fallout.