What was Dewey's policy regarding foreign affairs? I'm talking about stuff like Cold War alliances, proxy conflicts, armed interventions, and nuclear deterrence. If the Korean War happened on his watch, would he relent to MacArthur's push for irradiating the Yalu River (or otherwise deploying...
Let's assume that ITTL, the plan to deploy three tactical-yield nuclear devices to aid the French colonial forces engaged in combat with the Vietminh militants receives the green light; in May 1954, there is fire in the hole.
How does this affect the outcome of the Indochina war? In the long...
What if the Armstrong and Aldrin's excursion module suffers a critical failure which results in them getting stranded on the Moon, but then a Soviet follow-up mission recovers them and brings them safely back to Earth?
Possible ASB?
According to a book by history author Richard Dargie, the man named Edward Aßner, an ex-Nazi politician with a personal grudge against Adolf Hitler, conspired to assassinate Hitler by mailing him a poison letter very early in his chancellorship (in 1933). IOTL this obviously did not pan out, but...
IOTL the United States military officially integrated its personnel in 1948, per the order of President Harry S Truman. Was there ever any serious possibility of things going in the opposite direction? A very grim direction?
What kind of PoD would be necessary for the US military to face some...
Ok, I will admit my mistake in characterizing the production process of that first film. However my questions about the effects of this event still stand. I genuinely wonder what the cinema lineup of circa 2020 would look like if Star Wars was never more than a cult favorite (something you would...
The 1977 space opera epic film Star Wars was saved in editing. Were it not for the assertiveness of his fellow crew and cast, young Jorge would have turned out a slogging pile of garbage, forgotten by everyone within a year of its release. What kind of world would we all live in if the first...
What kind of PoD would be necessary for nuclear thermal propulsion to really take off? What effects would a "Nuclear Space Race" have on the global economy and international relations? Let's try to keep things grounded in known designs like NERVA and Orion.
With a PoD after 31st Dec, 1945, what could lead to two western capitalist "democratic" countries having a limited nuclear exchange? Leave the Second World and Third World out of it if possible. I was just curious to see what would have happened if, say, the US nukes the UK in 1956 or France had...