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There was a reactor shut-down due to failure of fuel rods at Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, Russia, in 1983. Failure of automatic shut-down at Salem Nuclear Power Plant, New Jersey, USA. This was covered-up as a national security matter, 1983. And I think there was a nasty nuclear accident in 1988...

Not yet, I think. Probably in the 300-400 million range, really depends on the death toll in China and India.

to be honest, it would be really hard to overtake China in terms of body count, which probably exceeded tens, if not hundreds of millions at this point.

Turns out, I missed the last update. So now it's on. Again, to quote Kian Liu "No one at the time apparently thought to look at the calendar, because it occurred on October 1st, the thirtieth anniversary of the Revolution. How fitting an epitaph to the Great Helmsman's Revolution - mass murder...

The CSA only has access to smaller yield, shorter range nuclear weapons, deployed via cruise missiles, smaller aircraft (like the B61) and artillery. ICBMs, strategic bombers and ballistic missile subs are out of their reach. Although some of the weapons at their disposal are still devastating...

Japan re-arming and sliding into militarism got me thinking. Are the Soviets and the Japanese going to settle the Kuril Islands-Sakhalin dispute?

I don't think Rummy was stupid enough to neglect his nuclear forces during the privatisation. Even OTL Russia in the 1990s kept them in good shape. However, most nuclear sites (Malmstrom AFB and Fairchild AFB for instance) are well within the Western United States, and will most likely fall to...

Good old fashioned deterrence, most likely. Remember, before the Civil War the CVs are in control of the US nuclear arsenal. Or to quote Kiang Liu: "in the end he believed - or convinced himself - that the Americans and Soviets were so in awe of him that they would not dare attack"

*finished reading the last update* Well, it just keeps getting worse and worse with no end in sight. With Doug Coe at the helm it looks like all bets are off. I wonder how much longer till the CVs get the US Armed Forces revolting against them. An American version of GKCHP, perhaps? Also, I...

I wonder if They Live was made TTL. Maybe it was made in Europe/Canada and became an American cult classic, since it would probably strike a cord. Speaking of TTL John Carpenter and his movies, I wonder what Kurt Russell is up to.

Congress trying to impeach Pat Robertson?

I wonder what happened to Erich Honecker TTL. My best guess by mid-eighties he got eased into retirement by the Soviets in order to pave the way for German reunification. Maybe the Soviets might find a more dynamic figure to replace him, maybe even cultivate him and SED to be a legit political...

I wonder what happened to Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen.

Gorbachev certainly wasn't as loony as TTL Rumsfeld, but during his reign the USSR disintegrated.

I wonder how the Ku Klux Klan is doing in Rumsfeldia. Did it enjoy a revival due to the wave of anti-Arabic and anti-Chinese sentiments?

So far a good chunk of America's nuclear arsenal is untapped, since it was seized by the CV's enemies or in case of the Navy, interned in foreign ports. I'm not sure if they can deploy it, since the CVs were the last "legitimate" goverment with the launch codes and stuff. Of course, unless Rummy...

Don't recall Drew mentioning Ogarkov, but from looks of it the Soviet Armed Forces are being on a tight leash in terms of spending: the Tu-160, Typhoon class subs and the Admiral Kuznetsov never entered production. So brand new designs would probably have a harder time getting into production...

I wonder if Communism might get traction in post-Rummy America (probably the milder, Euro-Communism, see Italy and France), since Europe and the Warsaw Pact nations are doing reasonably well. Or American Communists got so crushed under Rummy/CVs never to rise again.

I wonder about the foreign involvement in the Second US Civil war. First and foremost, will there foreign volunteers fighting for CVs or their opponents? Second, which faction (The California movement, the North Eastern movement etc.) would the EDC and USSR bet on? In my opinion they would...

I wonder how much did the whole Agnew administration and his impeachment shaped TTL Rumsfeld. And did he order James Gavin to be killed off only to remove a critic or was he still wanted payback for the insult Gavin gave him in 1973?