Anton Johansson

Anton Johansson described a catastrophic 'hurricane' or storm — understood by later interpreters as atomic explosions, which did not exist in his lifetime. It would originate near the Panama Canal, devastate North America (Virginia, Chicago, Minneapolis, Washington, New York), then cross the Atlantic to strike the British Isles — England and especially its east coast suffering most severely — and continental Europe (France, Germany, Spain, Scandinavia, Italy, Eastern Europe), reaching the Black Sea, Crimea, southern Russia and Siberia.

Johansson foresaw a great war preceded by these signs: it would be summer in northern Sweden; new terrifying weapons would appear; a socialist government would rule Sweden at the war's outbreak; there would be conflict in Ireland; and there would be no snow on the Norwegian mountains. In the war: Russia conquers Persia and Turkey; China conquers India and Britain loses its power permanently; biological warfare kills some 25 million; Russia takes the Balkans and red armies sweep through Hungary, Austria and northern Italy toward France; France is conquered from within and without; Germany is attacked from the east, suffers civil war, but regains its freedom; Finland is invaded and suppressed; Russians and French invade Scandinavia, Gothenburg falling to the French; both Scandinavian kingdoms lose the war and cede their northern provinces to Russia; England and all the Baltic lands are destroyed by a terrible storm and parts of Scotland sink into the sea; the British currency collapses and the colonies are lost; the United States, threatened by five wars after 1907, fragments into four or five parts. 'One quarter of all humanity falls victim to this war.'