The way I've thought of this, as mentioned above Obama was leading Ryan prior to the scandal breaking. However, there's a difference between an Obama-Ryan campaign where Obama is winning with ~50% and the Obama-Keyes campaign where Obama was winning with ~70%. In the prior, even if you're going...
Probably because a ballistic missile is a ballistic missile. Terminal guidance is something that only really came into it's own in the 1980s with the combination of computers and electronics that existed in that era making it possible. So while it might be possible to put the equipment in an...
Just from the sounds of the Wiki excerpt, are we sure this was an actual plan? It has Yousef, who had been heavily involved in the first WTC attack and had devised the initial planning for what became 9/11, throwing out everything from launching a Stinger at Air Force One to launching ballistic...
D-Day had five battleships, twenty cruisers and sixty five destroyers providing naval gun fire. At Okinawa for example, the U.S. had ten battleships, eleven cruisers and thirty destroyers providing naval gun fire. Granted it's only one battle, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the...
In all honesty, an attack on the beaches does do one very useful thing, it makes the Allied breakout from Normandy far easier since German forces would have been engaged while the Allies literally had the largest naval gun line in human history to their backs. Granted though such an attack...
Two things here. First, do keep in mind that when you look at the voting records of Southern Senators during the New Deal Era, except for issues of race they were about as liberal as their Northern counterparts. The South prior to the mid-late 20th century was very much underdeveloped, meaning...
Given that from the sounds of it Roosevelt is still mentally there, just with his body falling apart, as long as he is lucid and mentally competent I do think the question has to be on things like the atomic bomb will be what does Roosevelt think? Unless by August FDR has mentally fallen apart...
How bad is FDR's mental state here? It's mentioned that he meets with Truman on April 15th and while Truman thinks that somethings off, it doesn't sound like it's obvious that Roosevelt is mentally incapacitated. So is FDR's condition primarily a physical one (i.e. he needs Eleanor or someone...
You have to admit that the Allied position with regards to jets was different from the German's simply because the Allies weren't getting the crap bombed out of them day and night. The Germans were desperate to field any technology that might improve the ability of their forces to combat Allied...
And given that 262's would start appearing in significant numbers in 1944 in this scenario, what exactly prevents the British from rushing development of their own jets when the need has them becomes known?
And at the same time, since the first operational 262 squadron (which was a test squadron as much as anything else) was withdrawn from combat after it's commander was shot down, and the first truly operational squadrons were only formed in Jan. 1945, why do the Germans not have similar issues...
Or, a little less speculatively, I do recall reading that the Pentagon was at one point studying the possibility of creating relatively small scale nuclear reactors in the early 1960's to power portions of the DEW line. As mentioned already, get a small scale design for a power reactor that has...
Also, given the awful reliability of the Panther for example (final drive train that breaks down after 500 km and turns the tank into a bunker, estimates by Guderian to Hitler that Panthers in the East can function for 1000 km without trouble, while Sherman's and T-34' can manage 2000-2500 km)...