Man craves for peace during war but he is haunted
by the fear of war during peace time. As a result of it during peace time he
starts preparing for war Piles up weapons. Enters into treaties with the super
powers and increases defence expenditure. All this leads to cold war. After the
Second World War. the two super powers-Russia and America started fearing each
other JOLT this fear as increased by their ideological differences and
differences in their political set up. So since the end of the Second World War
fear of the Third World War has been haunting mankind.
There have been man serious political problems
which might have easily leaded to Third World War. The earliest of them have
been the Cuban crises and Korean War. The Vietnam War. Iran dispute, Arab
Israel confrontation, Kashmir problem and even Russian occupation of
Afghanistan would have flared up into world war. All of these were serious
threats to world peace. But the fear of the disaster which may result due to
world war kept the nations under check. It appears there is a little chance of
World War Ill because with the coming of Bachelor in power efforts ha e been
made to defuse the world situational the Iraq Iran war has been brought to an
end the P.L.O. has declared Palestinian state without claiming Israeli land. Similarly
the confrontation between Russia and China is coming to an end Russia has
withdrawn her forces from Afghanistan. In Pakistan also democratic government
has been founded. So there is a great possibility that they may t to resolve
outstanding problems through negotiations with India. In this manner the
atmosphere is not so much charged with tension as it was in the earlier years.
Still we cannot say at this moment that peace is going to last for a long time.
Most of the world problems have not been buried deep rather they threaten to
become the cause of the third world war. Third world war.
The consequences of the Third World War are extremely
horrible to imagine. Some of the scientists have pointed out that the use of
bombs like Megaton bomb and Cobalt bomb would consume whole of the oxygen of
the atmosphere and living creatures would not be able to breathe and lie. Some
others say that the heat produced by the explosion of the bomb would melt snow
on the mountains and consequently the world would be flooded. Some other think
that after war even if there is some life it would be meaningless and extremely
primitive though some think that the nuclear winter will freeze every
things on earth if the third world war
is fought with the weapons which the super powers possess at this time there
would be total destruction. What be the fate of the earth and the universe if
the star war programd continues.
Super powers go on increasing their striking power.
Once Einstein was asked how third world war would was asked how third world be
fought he gave a pertinent reply that he did not know about the third world war
but if fourth world war was fought it would be fought with the help of stones.
He meant to was fought it would with the help of
stones. He meant to say that human beings would reel back to the primitive
ages. In fact during the third world war there be no victor and no vanquished. it
is only the horrible consequences of the Third World War that make the super
powers to think of avoiding war. President Nixon during his term as President
of America wanted to make use of the Nuclear Bomb in Vietnam and also during
Indo-Pak war but he desisted from this act of foolishness perhaps only because
of the fear of the destruction of the world. Russell in one of his essays
pointed out that if there was going to be a world war it should he as early as
it was possible otherwise it would be so destructive that there would be no
historian to record. The possibility of the Third World War at this time seems
to be remote. The consequences are so horrible that one could never think of
war. Former president of Pakistan Shaq Khan once said “we are standing on a
precipice and a single wrong step will bring total destruction”.