World War III was a global conflict involving nearly the entirety of the world's nations, lasting from 2017 to 2023. It was the deadliest conflict in human history, as the death toll clocked in at nearly triple that of World War II, in addition to global damage to infrastructure and severe pollution and other unintended factors that were the result of the war. The war was fought between two massive alliances composed of the greatest powers in the world, each with hundreds of millions of men and women under arms, in addition to enormous amounts of economic and industrial commitments to the war from both sides. The war began as a regional conflict, but, in a similar fashion to the first two world wars, entangling military alliances dragged the world's most powerful, and most destructive, cou