Recent content by IanBertram

Health generally improved under rationing once the effects of war casualties were removed.

This site is called Alternate History for a reason, you know. Troops were used during the strike in OTL, but no one died at Tonypandy. Churchill was reluctant to send the military at first. In practice too, it was the police who were ill disciplined and violent and the army, under the command...

Da never forgot Tonypandy. It haunted him his entire life. Not just him either. A whole generation were changed by that day. He used to say the bosses created the revolution, not the workers. Even so, deep inside him, I think he always wondered if the price had been too high. He still hated...

I didn't want anything. I'm commenting on the way so much of this thread seems to be based on the premise that 'this would be heresy' so it couldn't happen. There are millions of Protestants around to demonstrate just the opposite. At the time that seems to be emerging as a possible POD, most...

Again, irrelevant. Its followers can call it whatever they wish. The WI if relates to how such a religion might come into being, how it might grow, and the impact on OTL history.

Judging by much of the discussion so far, it doesn't seem obvious to some...

If this posited fourth religion appears, it is irrelevant if the other three think it is heretical. In fact, it is pretty much a requirement if it is to come into being.

Not looking good for NY City

See The Syndic - C M Kornbluth

Picky I know, but this would be a Federation, since none of the constituent 'states' have the right to secede. The power rests at the upper level.

Indira Ghandi came close.

Switzerland apparently considered it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction

The economic impact would be felt across the whole country and world wide as the US repatriates investments elsewhere to pay for reconstruction. The response to Katrina or Deepwater Horizon don't fill me with hope that something on this scale would be well managed... The impact of seriously...

I wasn't suggesting they would explode, but on your count there would be 250 nuclear warheads in the new sea. That radiation leaking out is going to be significant, especially since it would have a narrow mouth which would limit the outflow. The 1811 earthquakes caused a tsunami on the Ohio...

How? ICBMs are not designed to be watertight. Radiation will be leaking into the water from day 1. How many nuclear power stations were in this area then? How many chemical plants, how much chemical and petrochemical storage along the banks of the Mississippi and other rivers like the Ohio...