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  2. Global catastrophe scenarios - Wikipedia

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    However, while popular perception sometimes takes nuclear war as "the end of the world", experts assign low probability to human extinction from nuclear war. [ 85 ] [ 86 ] In 1982, Brian Martin estimated that a US–Soviet nuclear exchange might kill 400–450 million directly, mostly in the United States, Europe and Russia, and maybe several ...

  3. List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events - Wikipedia

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    According to the Century 10, Quatrain 74 of The Prophecies (1555), [200] the "start" of the end of the world begins in the given date of 3797, with a prolonged global war lasting between 25 and 29 years, followed by a series of smaller wars, [201] but most interpretations of Nostradamus dates are aware of required basic mathematic sums, given ...

  4. Doomsday Clock - Wikipedia

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    In the 2017 episode "The Pyramid at the End of the World", the Monks changed every clock in the world to three minutes to midnight as a warning about what will happen if humanity does not accept their help. Representatives of the three most powerful armies on Earth agreed not to fight each other, believing a potential war is the catastrophe.

  5. The end of the world as we know it? Theorist warns humanity ...

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    Ahmed’s paper comes following dire warnings about Earth’s rapidly warming future. Last year, a team of international scientists said that six of Earth’s nine planetary boundaries — that ...

  6. Doomsday device - Wikipedia

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    Many hypothetical doomsday devices are based on salted hydrogen bombs creating large amounts of nuclear fallout.. A doomsday device is a hypothetical construction – usually a weapon or weapons system – which could destroy all life on a planet, particularly Earth, or destroy the planet itself, bringing "doomsday", a term used for the end of planet Earth.

  7. Human extinction - Wikipedia

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    A 1950 Gallup poll found that 19% of Americans believed that another world war would mean "an end to mankind". [11] Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring raised awareness of environmental catastrophe. In 1983, Brandon Carter proposed the Doomsday argument, which used Bayesian probability to predict the total number of humans that will ever exist.

  8. ‘A Murder at the End of the World’s’ Surprising, Powerful ...

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    SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from “Chapter 7: Retreat,” the finale of “A Murder at the End of the World,” now streaming on Hulu. Like an Agatha Christie novel rebooted ...

  9. Hitler's prophecy - Wikipedia

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    The same month, an official of Hitler's chancellery told a British diplomat of German plans "to get rid of [German] Jews, either by emigration or if necessary by starving or killing them" to avoid "having such a hostile minority in the country in the event of war".