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I would have loved to see the Hawker P.1121 enter service. A Mach 2.5-capable interceptor and ground-attacker. It could have been the British equivalent of the F-4 Phantom. Instead it was one of the many victims of Duncan Sandys.

Given that in OTL both Michigan and Ohio had Democratic governors who were succeeded by Republicans in 2010, I think a collapse of the auto industry could push those states even further toward the GOP as a kneejerk reaction. Senators Sherrod Brown and Debbie Stabenow could lose reelection in...

Wittman would almost surely write a memoir of his wartime experiences, just like Otto Carius did. I expect it would whitewash the Waffen-SS's activities and depict the Soviets as "Asiatic hordes", among other myths and exaggerations it would include.

Recreating the current AH.com color scheme would be a good idea, not just for familiarity, but also because it's easier for me to read black text on this website's current light-gray background than on a pure white background. It's easier on my eyes. I like that quotes past a certain length are...

Have you ever seen a pancake fly through the air? Allow me to present the Vought V-173 prototype and the Vought XF5U fighter...

Interesting story so far. It reminds me of your previous timeline Year of the Three Secretaries, which also followed a reformist USSR. Andrei Kirilenko won't last as an effective leader past the early 1980s. In OTL he was suffering from arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) and his...

Even as POTUS, Dennis still hasn't reached his peak...

Two years ago (almost to the day!) I posted infoboxes for the U.S. presidential elections in A Giant Sucking Sound: A President Perot TL.

Nice expy of Logan. I want to visit this universe so I can see how its MCU and X-Men franchises compare to OTL's. Keanu as director? I wonder if Stark would have the gritty, realistic* kinds of fight scenes like in the OTL John Wick movies. *Compared to typical action movies, that is. Oh no...

Technically the pattern was broken by Georgy Malenkov (hairy) when he succeeded Stalin (hairy) as Premier and de facto leader of the USSR. Of course, he wasn't in power for very long...

That brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "Obey the President."

One scenario that could provoke a Soviet intervention would be if post-revolution Iran fell into a civil war between Islamists and leftists. The Tudeh, Iran's Communist party, had been allied with the Islamists in the first few years after the revolution. That ended in 1982 when the Islamist...

Warday is one of my favorite novels about nuclear war, alongside Alas, Babylon. It's definitely a product of the 1980s, though, but it can easily be read as alternate history now. I would have loved to see a film adaptation.

In addition, "responsibility" was misspelled as "responsability" in the last sentence, and the word "Jews" was not capitalized in the third paragraph ("...and was personally responsible for the capture and execution of countless jews from 1939 to 1944."

As much as I enjoy that novel, it bothered me that the U.S. was able to receive a 600+ megaton counterforce strike - one that destroyed dozens of military bases, and which caused radioactive fallout to blanket D.C. - and then proceed to launch a military invasion of Russia in retaliation. Given...

What office(s) did Beau Willimon hold in this TL? I guess this means no American House of Cards, unless someone else helmed the show. I also realized he would be just barely old enough to serve as VP (he turned 35 in 2012) and would be the youngest VP in U.S. history, beating John Breckinridge...

I'd save some of my favorite rockstars who died too soon. Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and Kurt Cobain were each 27 when they died, and I would be curious to see what music they would create had they lived longer, what directions they would take in their musical evolutions, whom they might...

I'll be watching this story. I'm excited to see the consequences for Nixon and his team... and the consequences for everyone else.

I just checked my copy of the book. It says that Soviet nukes hit Homestead Air Force Base, Miami International Airport, MacDill Air Force Base, Naval Air Station Jacksonville, McCoy Air Force Base, and Orlando Municipal Airport. Those were the explosions visible from Fort Repose. The book also...

Even before Mein Kampf, Hitler admitted he wanted to eliminate the Jews: "An antisemitism based on purely emotional grounds will find its ultimate expression in the form of the pogrom. An antisemitism based on reason, however, must lead to systematic legal combating and elimination of the...