I just finished reading the first book in W. Churchill's history of WW2 last night; from the look of things, there were dozens of excellent opportunities to avoid war and keep Germany control, but France, the UK, the League of Nations, et al, always chose the wrong path. Any time before 1938 and...
Wikipedia's take on the subject:
All of these are reasonable choices, except for Kelly (about which we know nothing) and Thatcher (almost certainly an absurdist inclusion; the entry could have been edited by a prankster). But I included them to be thorough to the entry.
*sigh* Furthermore...
Well, sure, you can randomly insert an assassination attempt into any WI you want. I don't think anyone disputes that. But I'd say it's also just as plausible that there are no more attempts, or that there may be attempts that do not succeed. See also: cat, Schroedinger's.
Nobody's holding...
I'll direct you to this site, which publishes archival gov't documents, some of which elaborate on Kennedy's plans for withdrawal from Vietnam, had he lived.
Absolutely. It would have been diminished at the very least, because the youth of America would not have lost the icons of both Kennedy brothers. And while I couldn't say with certainty that MLK's assassination would be butterflied away, I'd say his chances of survival would greatly improve...
If JFK lived, I don't see RFK entering politics on any level, except at whatever behest his brother would make. I actually believe he might resign as AG in JFK's second term in order to pursue a career more open to direct public service.
On the other hand, I think Ted would probably remain in...
An easier way to take care of all of this is to have the UN stridently uphold the language of its initial resolutions. If the UN were more stalwart about backing up such resolutions, rather than huffing and puffing when some tinpot dictator calls its bluff, there may have been German and French...
Any time after D-Day, and the only practical targets become London (sting the Brits so hard they quit) or spite bombings of Paris and Moscow (we're going to lose but at least we'll take your cities). Even with a long-range bomber, even if the crew took it on as a one-way mission, I think the...
Not submerged, you can't. Shallows off the NW Virginia banks of the Potomac reduce the river's channel to around 27-29 feet. You could sail up on the surface under cover of night, and you'd have the advantage of the US not really having anything on the river that could take on a U-boat... but be...
Every ballistic missile is space-based for a little while. It goes up, it leaves the atmosphere, it comes down, it re-enters the atmosphere.
Ah. So this is just Dr. Strangelove. See CDurham's post which precedes this one and is full of truthiness.
This is ASB if only for one simple reason: the shielding necessary to ensure the warhead's successful reentry through the atmosphere would add so much additional payload weight that launch vehicle would have to increase dramatically in size.
By way of comparison: The "Tsar Bomba," which...
There will never be rapproachment so long as Iran -- even perceptually -- aids Hamas or Hezbollah.
I'm not anti-Israel, but neither am I anti-Palestine, either. But until some kind of lasting peace can exist between these two groups, there can be no peace between the US and any Islamic...
Post-war traffic in NYC overwhelms the city as rich war vets stimulate the economy. In order to deal with gridlock, President Truman accelerates the space race, culminating with the launch of the first orbiting traffic reporter in geosynchronous orbit over the five boroughs. At the end of rush...
If the Iranian students who stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran did the same thing to the Soviet Embassy, who knows? Of course, that was Oct. '79, so having relationship ca. 2001 w/r/t Islamic extremists might be pushing things.
If the Soviet Union had a better relationship with Israel, rather...