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Why should the Austrians want to be part of Germany again ? Post-war Austria was regarded as the first victim of Nazi Germany (despite widespread support), so becoming voluntarily part of Germany would look a bit odd...

It has a higher content of minerals containing REE compared to the surroundings, but is not made mostly of the elements (would be chemically very difficult for such a large structure). So I wonder if the additional transport costs would even out the advantages.

First, technical problems - i guess video cameras back then were a bit bulky. No, even if he recorded it on audio tape, he would be finished as politican. No one would would trust him anymore, if were willing to publish stuff from secret negotiation. With him as head of government, germany...

I guess whoever would be in charge in that case in the DDR would be chanceled b ythe Red Army very fast, but not any treaties with the SU. Why do you think the Soviets would allow the East Germans of even thinking about it (see 1953). And NATO did not help hungary in 1956, or the CSSR in 1968...

I can only strongly support this.

Then he would have been an aircraft carrier. A really BIG one :D

Probabaly strongly correlated with Battlehip-fetishism :D

Do you have a source for this :confused:? Storing larger numbers of nukes on enemy territory would backfire ugly if only one warhead is found. And I cannot imagine this being tried in 1950s cold war US - too many people paid to look especially for the bad guys doing stuff. I don't think the...

And that happened after clear to total military defeats. If the transition to the post-rumsfeldian era is smooth without any revolution etc., I do not predict too many of them punished as they would deserve. Also, 'compassionate' Neo-Rumsfeldianism about 20 years later.

E.g. Chile, Spain.

I fear not for that long - too many important and infuental people involved. They will slaugther some scapegoats, but the people actually responsible will get away mostly unharmed at the end. In ATL 2014, they will be highly respected among conservatives, who will look back to the 80s as the...

Try 'The Panic of 79' by Paul Erdman. Published in 1976, it has a nuclear armed Shah playing off the superpowers (and western nations) against each other in an attempt to conquer the gulf nations. It all ends in nukes.

Thats easy - the whole Draka stuff by SM St_i_rling. Just one big handj*b for fanbois who usually can't even spell his name correctly. But Stevar knew what he was doing, and admits by now that it was crap. And he is still getting away with it, his fans still lap it up :D:D

Also a hell of a potential Y2K problem (the older may remember :http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem) :D

Exactly. And this is missed in many WWIII timelines (and also Novels). Essentially, most of the countries in the Northern Hemisphere directly involved in the conflict sustained damages on WWII Ostfront level. This will have massive consequences post-war, not just politically and militarily, but...

I fear in TTL Apartheid SA would be seen as an ally of the West. Also, I guess there would be a massive shift to the political right especially in the West after the war. So Stevars worldview would be moderate/centrist in TTL and mass market compatible, so he wouldn't have to bother with BDSM...

How ? The KPD got ~6% in 1949, a bit far from power (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_German_federal_election,_1949). Then 2% in 1953. They were banned in 1956. (I suppose you don think the SPD were communists).

So the Soviets just bought enough time to somehow (barely) stabilize things. They will bleed white in China, while everyone is frantically rebuild/rearm. Looks like there will be a Fourth World War in a decade or so ...:eek:

Time to take shelter behind the sofa :eek:.

That is an interesting point - the idea of a united Europe was a bit more popular back then,, IIRC. Also, the fact that the whole of (Western)Europe fought and won a war together could also lead to a post-war mood which could support a much stronger union. But then again, I expect that in the...