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I recall RanulfC stating that the reason the hanford reactors were ramped down was due to damage from neutron embrittlement (I.E, the wigner effect). The program cutbacks were merely a consequence of this. The americans just couldn't keep churning out bombs at that rate. This article from...

Hard core man, fucking hard core.

Okay, so Goering stepping down voluntarily isn't a option. What other options are there to make the luftwaffe command structure more efficient? Milch replacing Udet is an obvious choice. But how about replacing Jeschonnek with Gunter Korten, would that work?

I actually read some more of that thread today, and it amazes me just how many layers of FAIL there are in 'the big one.' One of the commentors said that there were 2600 aircraft involved in that single raid, many of them B-36s! It looks as if my previous summary (that the americans didn't need...

I have encountered a similar dilemma with my story! The POD is set in April of 1941, however. I'm wondering how the luftwaffe could be reorganised into something less dysfunctional. Looking at a wikipedia article of the OKLs organisation, it isn't clear whether or not the rank of 'supreme...

Yes. The very premise of TBO is invalidated from the outset. There was actually a guy over on SB who did a good job of addressing the B-36 problem. Are you sure about that? The hanford reactors started having problems with the wigner effect sometime in 1946. The b reactor went first (because...

Yeah, thats pretty much my opinion. If britain signs a white peace with germany, its really hard to get america in the war. Its actually far more plausible to go the route that AANW did: The nazis manage to squeak out a win at stalingrad, which causes fragmentation within the soviet politiburo...

Before you can proceed with a story even vaguely resembling that of the big one, you have to recognise a simple fact: Namely, that the americans are not going to wait multiple years until they have built up a stockpile of over 200 atom bombs. They are going to start dropping bombs on germany as...

For the holodomor, snyder gives a figure of over 5 million deaths, which is much too low. The best study on this matter comes from oleh wolowyna, who concluded that over 7.6 million people died in the famines. For the gulags, snyder gives a figure of 1 million deaths. The minimum accepted...

That number is most likely too low. This website does an overview of the megadeaths that occurred in the 19th and 20th century. There are various estimates available for the number of people joseph stalin murdered, but one of the most balanced accounts comes from robert conquest. He gives a...

Liquidation is a broad category: Mass murderers like stalin, hitler, and mao use it as a euphemism. It can mean 'killed', or it can mean 'resettled.' But WRT generalplan ost, even if the majority of the population was exiled instead of killed, you would still expect a high mortality rate. Being...

They have alot of resources and material, yes. But their fighting power was still low in 1943, while the germans retained high fighting power. That equation wouldn't change until mid 1944, when the allys gained more experience and the germans suffered a manpower implosion. And if you look at an...

Citation needed for that. A couple elitist magazines 'showing support' for the USSR in 1941 doesn't count. Nor does propaganda from madison avenue.

Not as interesting as 'A different kind of terror.'

Are you only going to write 1 story, or 2 of them?