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Was that ever 100% confirmed?

Ive always assumed the Vela event was a S.African or Israeli (or both) test. As you say, its likely we'll never know though.

People who want cheap labour to do shit jobs. In the UK you can do certain jobs part time at 13, but you have to go to school as well. I can imagine a situation where the school leaving age stays at 14, but if you leave at that stage you have to go into a training scheme or similar. Maybe if...

Im imagining in a situation where N. Korea does something like the 2010 island shelling, but a bit worse, and and the US and ROK feel compelled to respond. In that kind of situation China would likely be forced to accept the eventual outcome, in return for the Chinese being given favourable...

There have been any number of N.Korean provocations over the years that someone like McCain could spin into a war. I think China could be convinced to allow intervention in N.Korea, as long as they got assurances about their border and assurances about trade with a unified *ROK. As a side point...

Agreed. I take the view that it was probably Cheney who was the primary architect of Iraq, and he likely pushed W into it to an extent. I think without Cheney, or with him and without W to push the "Saddam tried to kill your dad" angle on, North Korea and Iran are more likely targets.

Pakistan is an obvious possible source of such help.

Ignoring the specifics of it being Kennedy, the reaction to a president being shot on live TV would be interesting. There have been cases of people dying on live TV, but never someone like the President of the US. I think if anything it would actually increase the number of conspiracy theories...

There were plans that would have allowed him to effectively sit in the Commons as a non-voting member, so that in itself probably wasnt an issue.

I think he would only likely become PM if Churchill was completely out of the picture (so, dead, basically) And I suspect, but have no proof, that the idea that Halifax was an appeaser is probably overblown.

Agreed. And I suspect "designer babies" would be the tamest idea.

I was thinking more along the lines of someone taking racial stereotypes to the logical conclusion: "Black people are strong and thuggish, White people / Asians are clever, therefore if I selectively breed them I'll create a super race!"

I suspect that even without the Nazis you would end up with some bad shit being done in the name of eugenics given enough time. The idea that immediately came to mind was someone trying to use "selective breeding" of criminals to create super soldiers. Maybe with added racism ("Lets breed black...

Yeah, I think youd have the PM being head of state from the House of Lords, with the "majority leader" (although I doubt they'd use that term) in the Commons being head of government.

I can't see Britain going to a directly elected president in that era, so what came out of it would be interesting. I quite like the idea of the House of Lords electing one of their number to be president after every general election. I suspect you'd end up with a de facto elected monarchy...

At the very least, Marshall seems like he's a half decent father.

Ford as a pro football player would be an interesting TL. Non-US example, I find it interesting to think what would happen if instead of going to parliament Dennis Skinner stayed in the National Union of Mineworkers and eventually became president of it. It's still politics, I guess, but it...

I had an idea for an alternate 2000s pop culture TL which involved, among other things, Avril Lavigne as a Christian Rock singer.

Probably one of those things where it may have been done briefly but its inpossible to prove they did.

I think there were a number Russian ones who were similar. Id also argue that things like the Stanford Prison experiment was unethical.