With a hot war in ‘53 does it progress beyond that? Best case the entire communist bloc and Western Europe are worse off than 1945 Germany and the U.S. is wounded. With nobody left to fight and domestic reconstruction taking priority that sort of project likely takes a back seat.
The Duchess was quite prolific back in the day. And Shep… oh Shep…
Stu Slade’s Armageddon-verse was hosted on SDN way back when. Long gone now. That site was quite the scene from like ‘02-‘10
Garrahy was beloved for his handling of the Blizzard of ‘78. in hindsight it was a bit of a mess but he was present, active and all over media giving consistent updates despite being snowed in without a change of clothes. Dude couldn’t eat a meal in public for decades without people asking him...
Buddy Cianci used to come into my office in Providence and literally entertain the crowd. People doing their banking? Everything stopped and until Buddy talked to everyone. The guy undeniable charisma. Especially in person. He also pled no contest to tying a man to a chair and shoving a burning...