The Loss Of Life In WW3 Visualized

Number of deaths of the Third World War. For Forth World War we will use rocks and spears. SUBSCRIBE! https://goo.gl/3sPGBT Let’s look at it this way: we don’t know who would start it or who would be on what side, but we can safely say, for it to be a world war, the major players might include the US, China, Russia, the UK, Canada and Australia, India, Pakistan, North Korea, Japan, South Korea, and The EU, meaning all known nuclear weapons would be implicated if not in use, and, depending on the nature and location of the conflict, would additionally include some combination of countries from Africa, South America, and The Middle East. (Antarctica would probably stay out of it since it’s ruled by a benevolent council of penguins.) Since we don’t know much about the nature of WWIII given that it, thankfully, has not happened yet, to think about the possible loss of life, we’ll look at historical data from the first and second world wars and advancements in weapons and technology since then that tell us what a modern world war might look like. Let’s start with the previous world wars. First, I’ll take a cue from Neil Halloran’s incredible video detailing the loss of life during World War II and mention that, when we talk about casualties in war, we’re talking about a combination of people who died and people who were injured or for some other reason unable to fight and taken out of battle. In this video, we’ll mostly be talking about fatalities, or deaths, but if we tlak about casualties, know that that means both the dead and the incapacitated. So, for example, World War I had 40 million casualties: estimates say somewhere between 15 and 19 million people died between military and civilians and another 23 million military personnel were injured. Of those millions, between 8.5 and 10.8 million were military deaths, 2.25 million civilians died due to military actions and crimes against humanity, and another 5.4 to 6.1 million civilians died due to war-related famine and disease. This means, altogether, around 1% of the world’s 1.791 billion population at time died in World War I. World War II was even more brutal... For copyright queries or general inquiries please get in touch: [email protected]