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Huh ? Who will trust any treaty after this ? The centre/right will demand a NPT with teeth applying to everbody except those who showed that they could be trusted with nukes.

In germany at least centre and right never disputed that nukes were dangerous and might be used. And they had been warning for years of the communist danger and that the west ought to strengthen defenses, while the hard left argued that the communists were peaceful and would never attack...

a) IMO there is zero chance that the US, UK, France and Israel will give up nukes after this. b) IMO there is zero chance that the US will nuke any of them for keeping their nukes.

No, the people who started this war, then nuked china and finally sent out Launch orders against the west killed them.

Huh ? Able Archer was an exercise. Both sides did exercises all the time.

They would also have known about taranto. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Taranto

Peace with the netherlands will likely include peace with the dutch east indies, which may result in no oil embargo, which means that there is no reason to attack the US.

From the west german POV all east germans and west germans were simply german citizens. An east german could walk into any west german embassy anywhere (provided he got out of east germany first) and ask for a (west) german passport. They were not offered citizenship, they already had it. In...

Germany´s Wirtschaftswunder will be slowed down. Germany´s rearmement will be slowed down. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirtschaftswunder The demands of the Korean war in 1950-53 led to a global shortage of goods that helped overcome lingering resistance to the purchase of German products...

The USAF agrees: http://usmilitary.about.com/library/milinfo/affacts/blblu-82b.htm It is a general-purpose “dumb bomb” loaded aboard newer versions of the C-130 Hercules, a four-engine workhorse used by the Air Force for more than 30 years. Because the bomb lacks a tail fin assembly, the...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction#Cold_War_and_beyond As part of the accession negotiations of West Germany to the Western European Union at the London and Paris Conferences, the country was forbidden (by Protocol No III to the revised Treaty of Brussels of...

The idea was equally pioneered in italy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_Douhet Douhet believed in the morale effects of bombing. Air power could break a people's will by destroying a country's "vital centers". Armies became superfluous because aircraft could overfly them and attack...

In open desert. In many other terrains the two will not be able to see one another until they are much closer.

Again: the bundeswehr was more than twice as strong as the NVA. And west berlin was garrisoned by a US, british and french brigade each. How exactly would east germany invade west berlin without shooting at US/british/french troops ? And if you deploy the at least 2 or 3 divisions required to...

Yiu are aware that the NVA had 6 divisions and the bundeswehr 12 ? And that there were 20 soviet divisons in east germany ? And that given NATO deployments any invasion would either have to spare significant parts of western germany or hit allied (from north to south: british/dutch/belgian/US)...

But there have been non-voluntary land reforms without starvation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reform Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Iran, France, Greece, Estonia, Latvia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Prussia, Romania, some states in India, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea

Just a small factual correction: § 175 StGB was completely lifted only in 1994, though west germany restricted it in 1969 to sexual acts with men younger than 18, and east germany lifted it´s similar § 151 StGB in 1988.

Will that plan still be feasible as far as public opinion in the US is concerned ? First the New York, then two defeats in land battles and two US bases conquered ?