Recent content by Weaver

The fact is that Britain actually was a world-leader in aviation and jet propulsion in 1945 and simply gave it all away, even to the Soviets. Britain lacked the will to do anything outstanding in that drab, stoney-broke world.

But Lemay was Chairman of the JCS wasn't he? It would have been Power in the Omaha bunker.

I'd like to see some updates on the situation in UK and the USSR, especially the latter. I was 17 at the time of the Cuban crisis and frankly was scared sh1tless that it was going to happen. Even drove past a dispersal field near our town and saw four Vulcans sat at the end of the runway...

The early Polaris missiles had major reliability issues concerning warheads. It was later estimated that 75% were not likely to detonate due to corrosion in the warhead pit.

There is a scene in Threads showing kids unpicking woollen garments in an organised manner. I can't see anything like organised education getting underway after an Exchange in UK. There simply wouldn't be the spare resources.

I'm fairly sure that President Reagan offered the Brits a carrier if they needed it, also a lot of AIM9Ls were supplied.

Stay out of WW1 altogether. There won't be a WW2.

Nope, I lived in Gaborone from 1974 to 1977 and it was much older than 1960. Our house was at least 40 years old when we lived in it. It was the Parliament complex and central mall that was built in 1960.

Logistics being the enemy, why wasn't the effort post-Smolensk put into taking Leningrad, thus opening up seaborn logistics and joining hands with the Finns? With Leningrad acting as a supply base (no...not dynamited by the SS), and the front stabilised for the Winter, Moscow would surely...

Open flanks?

In 1984, Australia still had virtually no firearm ownership restrictions, and military weapons like the AR-15 and M-14 were commonplace. I owned them myself. Recruiting a well-armed and skilled militia would be very straightforward. This would free up the regulars for real soldiering and...

If the Canberra warhead was an airburst there wouldn't be any crater to see. Just saying....great timeline.

Dead in the rubble of Cairns Base Hospital.

It makes you wonder just how many of us on this thread would be alive today. :eek:

Just realised that I don't make it after all, though my family does. I was in Cairns Base Hospital that day, not at home, just having had spinal surgery. Crushed and burned lying in a hospital bed.