Why WON'T there be World War 3?

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Just wondering, why WON'T World War 3 happen anytime soon? Because N. Korea is now conducting ICBM missile tests that can strike with little warning. I always had a lump in my throat and crying a little bit about this. Also, people I know who talk to have their heads in the sand. They don't understand how much I want to survive or how scary and big of a deal a scenario would be.

NK won't start a world war.

If they ever step out of line you will see a dog-pile fall upon them.
They are an excuse to use up old stock and show off what they have for sale, and everyone hates NK, so it's good press as the big boys destroy them and kill their people.

My point is that an ICBM missile can be capable of hitting US territory. Why does everyone think they know what they are talking about. I PRAY that the world will not end by this.

It's outwith your control.

We've had nukes since the 40s, our generation and those that follow have to work on removing them, we can't live in fear of them.

I live within 30 miles of the base for the Nuclear subs, I'm gone in the first strike, dust.
I don't believe anyone who has the power to start WW3 would be stupid enough to do it.

Maybe Trump, he's really dumb.

What?

Think about it.

So Mr Un manages to build a single operational ICBM that can cross the wide Pacific to hit us.

He manages to deliver a single Hiroshima type bomb on the US. The Hiroshima bomb killed the same number of people as die on US highways every two, or three years. So the odds of you being one of the American who dies in the Nork nuke is about the same as the odds that you would not have already survived riding on America's highways in last three years.

Meanwhile the US would retaliate- and nuke North Korea a 100 times over, and incinerate 100 percent of the population of Un's whole nation several times over.

Because Mr. Un knows that that's what would happen he knows that he has nothing to gain, and has everything to loose by launching an ICBM against us. So if he has nothing to gain he probably wont do it.

Soooo ... The fact that this world war prediction was flat out wrong and nothing started on the 13th May hasn't lessened your ongoing anxiety about this topic? You might want to start looking at what is behind this anxiety in you, instead of outward looking for aspects of the state of the nations that justify the likelihood and therefore, justify being worked up about it.
I honestly don't think anyone could get themselves organised enough to mount warfare anymore. If you look at the world wars, it was a massive undertaking involving several countries that required extreme levels of cooperation (whether for good or ill) and organisation. Dissension could have easily undermined their efforts and likely, would undermine anyone else nowadays.
Yes a bomb could drop. A plague could start. A solar flare or radiation wind / gamma burst could cook us all to death. That's life. Uncertain safety is what being alive in the world involves. Perhaps the people around you don't have their heads in the sand so much as they acknowledge and accept this ambivalence. Stressing about wars starting accomplishes nothing. If you're interested in making what difference you can, perhaps you could look into ways to actively contribute to peace processes?

Then, what is your point?

I wrote a whole paragraph, but it vanished for some reason.

Kim Un only has fission bombs, and not fusion bombs. So anything he has will be comparable to Hiroshima (14 kilotons), and not to the average nuke in either the US arsenal, or the Russian arsenals. Which are half a megaton, to a megaton.

But even if he did have an H bomb it. Doesn't change my point. So he sends one bomb across the pacific. Then we retaliate and wipe out his whole country. So he doesn't gain anything by nuking us. So why would he nuke us?

NK may have EVERYTHING to lose, but if Kim does send a nuke across the pacific anyway, the US will still have SOME things to lose and pay for.