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Weren't they already doing this OTL?

As promised, here I am to comment. I'm not as in-depth familiar with East Asian history as I really need to be (since I teach AP World), so this could be a very interesting experience for me. Keep up the good work!

Where then could the Bomb be used to facilitate boots on the ground--either tactically or against industries sustaining German armies and/or logistics?

That works.

Perhaps the Bomb could be used tactically in Italy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_1945_offensive_in_Italy Even if the Gothic Line is broken, there's still the passes into Austria, South Tyrol, etc.

If the A-Bomb exists but some of the conditions you describe prevent it being deployed by aircraft vs. Berlin, the Allies might use it in a more cautious fashion. Perhaps a submarine commando team sneaks it into Hamburg or the Kiel Canal and BOOM?

It was, but there was an article recently written by someone who was involved that the Allies thought the Germans had a more advanced A-Bomb program than they actually did and didn't want to use the bomb first. That said, if they were to learn their assessment of the German program was wrong or...

Good idea including Huntington with the Buchananites. Although Clash of Civilizations is more well-known, his other political works show him as skeptical toward globalization and immigration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Are_We%3F_The_Challenges_to_America%27s_National_Identity This shows...

Yep. It's a lot harder to be a terrorist in a police state.

Faeelin posted this link on Facebook earlier today. It's too long to mega-quote, so here it is: https://www.adamtooze.com/2017/05/31/medieval-burgundys-abortive-state-building/ Basically the argument was that Burgundy was on the verge of transitioning from a feudal realm to an early-modern...

In that case, he could always blackmail him with threatening to expose his Resistance activities in order to get him to accept a position of ambassador to Paraguay or some other faraway place he can't cause trouble. Or have him placed under some kind of house arrest or some other...

If the Nazis never take power, nor does some socially-conservative analogue that isn't as bugnuts-insane, you might have the liberal Weimar cabaret culture go on for awhile longer.

The WWII Allies liked to engage in politically-motivated psychoanalysis, including claiming the German people as a whole were predisposed to dictatorial rule due to child-rearing practices. The fact Goering covered for his brother's Resistance activities undermines him being a sociopath, as...

Killing bin Laden in Afghanistan before he can found AQ will prevent that organization in particular from forming, as well as deprive global Islamism generally of a charismatic leader and a big-time source of cash. You could argue OBL would be replaced by someone else (although that's way too...

Goering was the only top Nazi diagnosed as a sociopath if I remember correctly, and those tend to be thrill-seekers and adrenaline junkies. That said, given the circumstances of his diagnosis and the quality of the mental-health profession at the time, I'm inclined to think it suspicious.

Good point. The Saur Revolution was after the Baloch insurgency was squashed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_civil_war That said, once the ISI is supporting the Afghan Muj, what exactly do the Soviets have to lose by playing tit-for-tat?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency_in_Balochistan There was a period of Baluchi insurgency that was over by 1977. Depending on when the Pakistanis start supporting the Muj, the Soviets could do this as a less-radical alternative to the invasion of Afghanistan. Support the Baluchi...

I remember hearing somewhere of an AH scenario in which Lovecraft gets Sonia pregnant and that saves their marriage--the idea was that Lovecraft was too much a gentleman to leave her in the lurch, so he'd try harder to get a job. He ends up getting a job in advertising. I can't remember where...

Back from another self-ban for awhile. I've blogged about the first two scenarios you've written, but not this one. Keep up the good work. Even if I disappear again, know that I'm reading and appreciating.

I'm back from another self-ban and I do find this scenario interesting. The Pacific War seems a little too much like OTL, however, and it seems Hitler and Stalin both fall for reasons of plot. It took lots of problems in Germany for Valkyrie to get as far as it did OTL, and even then the coup...