{"id":17149,"date":"2010-07-14T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-04-13T23:41:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T04:41:53","slug":"world-war-iii-and-nuclear-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2010\/07\/14\/world-war-iii-and-nuclear-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"World War III and Nuclear Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many Americans see a violent future ahead for both the world and the United States in the next 40 years. A majority of the public expects another world war (58% say it definitely or will probably happen) and a major terrorist attack on the U.S. with a nuclear weapon (53%) by the year 2050. While a majority of each age bracket predicts another world war, fully 68% of young adults (ages 18-29) do so, the highest of any age group. Conversely, older Americans are the most likely to predict a terrorist attack with nuclear weapons against the U.S. For both threats, Americans with a high school education or less are more likely than those with more education to predict a violent future. Americans are far less apocalyptic with regard to extraterrestrial threats. While majorities see devastating man-made violence in the future, just 31% believe an asteroid will hit the earth at some time during the next four decades. <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/pubs\/1635\/future-life-2050-computers-cancer-cure-space-travel-energy-world-war-terroist-jesus-return\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly six-in-ten Americans predict another world war will break out within the next 40 years; 53% foresee a nuclear attack on the U.S. by terrorists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"sub_headline":"","sub_title":"","_prc_public_revisions":[],"_ppp_expiration_hours":0,"_ppp_enabled":false,"ai_generated_summary":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_api_pending":"1713064054","apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_hidden":false,"relatedPosts":[],"datacite_doi":"","datacite_doi_citation":"","_prc_seo_qr_attachment_id":0,"spoken_article_player_enabled":true,"displayBylines":true,"footnotes":"","prc_watchers":[],"_prc_fork_parent":0,"_prc_fork_status":"","_prc_active_fork":0},"categories":[],"bylines":[],"datasets":[],"_post_visibility":[],"formats":[467],"_fund_pool":[],"languages":[],"regions-countries":[515],"research-teams":[],"workflow-status":[],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-17149","short-read","type-short-read","status-publish","hentry","formats-short-read","regions-countries-united-states"],"label":"Short Read","post_parent":0,"word_count":156,"canonical_url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2010\/07\/14\/world-war-iii-and-nuclear-terrorism\/","art_direction":false,"_embeds":[],"prc_checklist":{},"watchChildPosts":false,"watchers":[],"table_of_contents":[],"datacite_doi":"","prc_seo_data":{"title":"World War III and Nuclear Terrorism","description":"Nearly six-in-ten Americans predict another world war will break out within the next 40 years; 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