Originally posted by deevergote
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1). Virus - with millions traveling per day, a virus or bacterial strain could cause havoc in less than a week.
2). Dirty bomb/ Terrorism - The collapse of the USSR misplaced a LOT of weapons grade uranium and plutonium. I can't imagine making a nuke is horribly difficult once you have those two components. If it is horribly difficult, you always have the 'dirty' option.
As far as I know, if a nuke goes off, the energy is used and the radiation is gone within weeks or months. If a dirty bomb goes off, well, Chernobyl happened 24 years ago and it's still a ghost town.
3). Major war - Here's the layout. North Korea attacks South. South, US, and NATO fight back. China, followed by Russia, enter and fight against the US and NATO. Boom - WW3.
That said, I can't imagine growing up in my Grand parent's or even parent's generation. G-parents dealt with WW1/2 while my parent delt with the cold war and the threat of Mutually Assured Destruction. Fuck.
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