Another possibility is partition, of the sort that resulted in massive death and displacement during the independence struggles of India and Israel.
The extreme cold, high radiation levels, and the widespread destruction of industrial, medical, and transportation infrastructures along with food supplies and crops would trigger a massive death toll from starvation, exposure, and disease.
RICHARD PRESTON, the author, knows a lot about the Ebola virus, smallpox and anthrax and the terrorists who would like to get their hands on such potential weapons of massive death.
But the global campaign to reduce tobacco's massive death toll is gaining momentum, and the industry is losing crucial battles in both the law courts and the court of public opinion.
Newsreaders might expect the Syrian carnage to have undone the historic progress, but they fail to notice the many recent civil wars that ended without fanfare (in Chad, Peru, Iran, India, Sri Lanka, India and Angola), and have forgotten earlier ones (Greece, Tibet, Algeria, Sudan, Indonesia, Uganda, Ethiopia and Mozambique) that had massive death tolls.
The group's Middle East and North Africa director, Philip Luther, said: "It is absolutely appalling that, while Israeli forces were inflicting massive death and destruction upon the people in Gaza, Hamas forces took the opportunity to ruthlessly settle scores, carrying out a series of unlawful killings and other grave abuses.
And that's all down to the combination of beautiful setting, massive death-rate, and sensible Tom Barnaby in the midst of it all.
Finally, it's not entirely fair to compare the Premiership to F1, as at least in F1 you know there's always a chance of a bit of action in the form of a massive death-defying smash" - Greg Kane.
Forget his massive death-spike; he's just a damaged puppy.
That's why I have so many adventures!" The authors of The Psychology of The Simpsons interpret this statement by Homer to mean that he "relies on his past experiences of taking massive, death-defying risks and winding up okay to justify forging ahead in the most extreme circumstances".
However, this assumption has been widely challenged, partly through the precautionary principle, because waiting for certainty about a toxin's harm could cause massive death/disease.
