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There is a good reason the Soviets put SSMs on their aircraft carriers. Only one Soviet shipyard built carriers: the Black Sea Shipyard in Nikolayev, Ukrainian SSR. Soviet carriers had to transit the Turkish Straits so they could join the Atlantic and Pacific fleets. However, the Montreaux...

If Ann Richards is elected president or vice president in 2000, then her tenure might be short-lived. In OTL she died in 2006 from esophageal cancer, which was brought on by heavy alcohol and tobacco use in her younger years. It would be very unlikely to butterfly that away if the POD is in...

SDI would probably continue, although that depends on political factors in the United States. The lasers and particle beams would have been too expensive and technological infeasible for the time, but the more practical elements of SDI like Brilliant Pebbles (small space-based kinetic...

I wonder how making Frankfurt the capital of the FRG would affect Soviet military strategy in the event of a NATO-Warsaw Pact war. As GDIS Pathe pointed out, it would be more important for NATO to hold the Fulda Gap because it leads straight to Frankfurt. Then again, Frankfurt was already a...

The T-95 main battle tank or something similar might be developed and enter service. Or the Object 187 (an experimental tank), although that one is also shrouded in secrecy. An advanced tank such as these would probably replace the T-80 and T-64, while the T-90 would replace the T-72 (which it...

And of course, Hillary Goldwater.

> Nixon defeats JFK > Hubert Humphrey as POTUS > Scoop Jackson as VP > Orval "No Negroes in my schools!" Faubus as third-party candidate > The other notable Floridian politician named Claude as POTUS > Al Haig as POTUS > Charlie Wilson as POTUS > Rummy as GOP nominee > Joe Biden as POTUS > Ron...

Biden's health would be a significant problem if he continues his presidential campaign. In OTL he suffered two brain aneurysms in 1988 and had two surgeries, one in February and one in May, to fix each of them. His campaign had ended several months before then, in September 1987, but even when...

He could always try running against Tom Carper in 2012. After all, he came close to victory in the special election against the son of Biden.

God help this TL's America, what with the Christian Right ruling the nation.

This is a wonderful scenario. It find it amusing - and totally appropriate - for Churchill to be leading this timeline's UKIP.

If von Braun continues his work in Germany, then more advanced models of the Aggregat rocket family will likely be developed. The A9/A10 rocket would fly by the late 1940s and give the Nazis the ability to attack the mainland United States. The A11 stage, when paired with the A9/A10, would allow...

In A Giant Sucking Sound Jeb Bush was elected Governor of Florida in 1994 (defeating Lawton Chiles) and reelected in 1998. He was later elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006, then ran for the Republican nomination again in 2012 and was elected president. I would say he would be closer to Richard...

I created wikiboxes for the U.S. presidential elections in this timeline. I posted them in the Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes thread. Enjoy!

I created wikiboxes for the U.S. presidential elections in A Giant Sucking Sound: a President Perot TL by @MaskedPickle. The POD is Ross Perot not ending his 1992 presidential campaign, and selecting former California Governor Jerry Brown as his running mate. Perot is elected President of the...

Are you thinking of Vortex by Larry Bond? That book has South Africa invaded by its neighbors, with Cuban and Soviet support.

If the Cold War continues into the 1990s, then apartheid will end with South Africa collapsing into civil war. To be fair, the end of the Cold War helped enable a peaceful end to apartheid. The African National Congress was supported by the Soviet Union, which led many white South Africans to...