Definitely. I would go even farther - the 50s in general are THE good old days at least in the western part of Germany. The same in Japan and France, btw.
More possibilities -
-Various STARDUST like missions to collect all kinds of dust material (not only comets, but also e.g. dust in the Jupiter or Saturn systems). Maybe in connection with Deep Impact style impactors.
-More space based telescopes
-Sample return from asteroids...
The Apocalypse Brigade by Alfred Coppel (1981) features western forces
using radiation weapons to irradiate the oilfields at the gulf. The plan is to
push the oil price over 100 US$ (or so) for good to make synthetic oil competetive :eek:. Typical early 80s/pre-Clancy thriller :D.
While CDU and CSU are technically separate (sister-)parties, they form(ed) a single parliamentary fraction (that is why they are often referred to as the 'Union'). So there never is a formal coalition necessary between these two parties. So, in 1949 the Union actually had a slight majority over...
I was 13ish that time, living 30 km away in line-of-sight of a first strike target to be carpet nuked with 1 Mt warheads (Pershing II bases in Southern Germany). Also my hometown had a major French military base:eek:.
Although I was a avid reader of pre-Clancy thrillers and SF, and also...
Battle of Milton Keynes (1987) :eek:
In the chaos following the collapse of the Powell government after the UN ultimatum, the PM and some loyal troops first fled to Cambridge and then tried a last stand in the half-finished Milton Keynes.
After two days of intense house to house fighting...
IIRC, even 1 km high tsunamis travel not that far inland, even on flat costal areas. I think it is only in the ~50 km range:eek::D, depending on the terrain. So heavy damage to the coasts, but neither France or Ireland would be annihilated.
Andreas
Totalitarian Individualism is my definition. And yes, they never make really clear what would happen to people who reject their society.:eek::eek:
Andreas
I wasn't ware of this - any idea what exactly was banned - foreign SF or
everything SF-like in general (also, where I could find the source) ?
As I said, the authors I mentioned were widely published and my impression is that the authorities knew about them (politically they were
on party...
Are you sure about that ? There actually was some crappy SF published (not under that name, of course). Hans Dominik or Freder van Holk were very successful during that time.
But still impressive planes ... the sound of F104s on low level
flight (or breaking the sound barrier) was the background noise of my childhood :D.
Andreas