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Was an American involvement in a guerilla war in some far-flung corner of the planet inevitable after World War II? Not necessarily literally inevitable, but inevitable in the sense that the emergence of an extreme-right-wing movement was inevitable in Germany after World War I. Would...

So, sometime in the late 70s/early 80s, there's a nuclear war between the Soviet Union and NATO. The northern hemisphere is first wrecked by nuclear blast, and then frozen over by nuclear winter. Presumably there's still survivors, but they don't concern us for the moment. What happens...

So, I'm working on a Cold War time line, part of which is an excuse to play with some of the various weapon systems that were proposed or even tested but never put into development. So, I'd love to hear what your favorite scrapped weapons were. Two I already know about, and do not plan on...

WI the Soviet Union, say in the 1960s or '70s, attempts to start marketing consumer goods in the outside world? Say Krushchev goes to the US and makes a big deal of offering trade agreements to allow both sides access to each other's markets, talking about beating capitalists at their own...

Before I'd begin, I'd like to just say two things. First, I would very much welcome comments, criticisms, and suggestions for changes, particularly for the period between 1962 and 1989. I know very little about the history of that period, and I expect I'm making a lot of mistakes. I'm...

I'm working on a timeline involving a third world war starting in 1989, and I'm looking for some resources on the likely course of a land war in Europe around that time. I'm assuming the use of tactical nuclear weapons, but no massive ICBM exchanges until too late to do any good. Since I know...

The challenge is to have a multi-ethnic, democratically representative, non-racist (or at least minimally racist) British Empire that roughly coincides with the historical outlines of the Empire itself. The state has to survive until the present and be reasonably stable into the near future...

I am working on a story set in a timeline where the US shifted to the right in the 60s, detente with the Soviets never happened, and we end up getting into a nuclear war in 1990. The problem is that I am having trouble figuring out how to get where I want to go. My current POD is that Kennedy...

My first post here, so please forgive me if I am posting this in the wrong forum. The story this is intended for is not actually alternate history, but the nature of the question suggested to me that this might be the best place to ask. The setting the story takes place in has not developed...