End of civilization

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  Doomsday event

  A doomsday event is a specific plausibly verifiable or hypothetical occurrence which has an exceptionally destructive effect on the human race. The final outcomes of doomsday events may range from a major disruption of human civilization, to the extinction of human life, to the destruction of the...
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  Nuclear warfare

  Nuclear warfare, or atomic warfare, is a military conflict or political strategy in which nuclear weapons are used. Compared to conventional warfare, nuclear warfare is vastly more destructive in range and extent of damage. A major nuclear exchange could have severe long-term effects, primarily...
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  Cold War

  The Cold War (1945–1991) was the continuing state of political conflict, military tension, and economic competition existing after World War II (1939–1945), primarily between the USSR and its satellite states, and the powers of the Western world, including the United States. Although the primary...
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  World War III

  World War III (also WWIII, or the Third World War) denotes a hypothetical successor to World War II (1939–1945) that would be on a global scale, with common speculation that it would likely be nuclear and devastating in nature. This war is anticipated and planned for by military and civil...
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  Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

  Post-Apocalyptic directly constitutes an occurrence that is after an apocaplyptic event. Post-Apocalpytic - After-Apocalypse Post-Apolcalyptic movies deal with many different scenarios often dealing with the end of man kind, the destruction of man kind, or takes place during the transition from...
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  Human evolution

  Human evolution, or anthropogenesis, is the origin and evolution of Homo sapiens as a distinct species from other hominids, great apes and placental mammals. The study of human evolution encompasses many scientific disciplines, including physical anthropology, primatology, archaeology, linguistics...
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  Nuclear Holocaust

  Nuclear holocaust refers to the possibility of nearly complete annihilation of human civilization by nuclear warfare. Under such a scenario, all or most of the Earth is made uninhabitable by nuclear weapons in future world wars. A common definition of the word "holocaust": "great destruction...

• Utopian and dystopian fiction

  The utopia and its offshoot, the dystopia, are genres of literature that explore social and political structures. Utopian fiction is the creation of an ideal world, or utopia, as the setting for a novel. Dystopian fiction is the opposite: creation of a nightmare world, or dystopia. Many novels...

• Human extinction

  Human extinction is the hypothetical end of the human species. Various scenarios have been discussed in science, popular culture, and religion (see End time). The breadth of this article is on existential risks. Humans are very widespread on the Earth, and live in communities which (whilst...

• Suspended animation

  Suspended animation is the slowing of life processes by external means without termination. Breathing, heartbeat, and other involuntary functions may still occur, but they can only be detected by artificial means. Extreme cold can be used to precipitate the slowing of an individual's functions; use...