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Two ways to do it. The first way to do it is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildalgo (I think) in 1848 to end the Mexican-American war. Instead of stopping with taking half of mexico, the US takes another layer of land south. Take Sonora and Chihuahua and points west. Don't need to take all of it...

Nice start. I'm subscribing early to beat the rush. Belushi TD

Oh, I forgot... Subscribed... Belushi TD

I'm certainly interested in reading more... Not much to comment on, as I don't know much about the defences of Upper or Lower Canada in the War of 1812 period. Belushi TD

Yep. You frequently needed to add oil to the piston engines during flight. As I recall, they needed to carry a couple of extra 55 gallon drums on long flights. Belushi TD

Great timeline. I've enjoyed reading it. I've a nitpick question regarding the second to last update... Why are there two different bombers named here? The B-36 WAS a high altitude bomber and the B-29 was not. Was there some bits cut out inadvertently, or did you mean B-29 where you've got...

As car as I can tell, your numbers are overly high, probably by a factor of 1/3rd at least. Using the numbers from this website, http://www.statistics.gov.lk/PopHouSat/PDF/p19%20Vital%20Statistics.pdf and running the numbers, one finds that in OTL, there were roughly 2.3 billion births, and...

Grant doesn't have an attack of concience, and continues frontal attacks a la cold harbor. Lots more union casualties, and, I would assume, lots more hatred as a result towards the south. Coupled with Lee getting killed in the same manner as Jackson at some point along the way, and his...

REminds me of one of Douglas Adams lines... He'll stand out like a dead nun in a snowbank. Or, if it distresses you to think of her as being dead, think that she is merely badly wounded, but will recover. Not QUITE a quote, but it gets the gist across. Belushi TD

Nah, they don't have to reconfigure the flight. They just have to accept that they can take home fewer moon rocks. Worst comes to worst, the guy gets picked up by the rover, or legs it from one lander to the other. Armstrong lets him in the lander, and they toss all his equipment out the...

You don't need particularly difficult to construct facilities to assemble an early fission weapon. As I recall, the facilities on Tinian were constructed by SeaBees in less than 6 weeks, and most of that was waiting for the concrete to harden. Since England is already a gigantic air base, I'm...

There is NO way for the Jumo-004 to EVER become a serious jet engine. The russians grabbed a pile of them and the scientists who were working on the and threw about 6 or 8 years and a pile of money into development. What they found out was that the engine concept was flawed, (axial vs radial...

I like it. Keep it coming. Seems very dystopistic. Looking forward to where this goes. Belushi TD

YOU BASTARD!!!!

If you're going to drop three and divide by two, that gets you TONS, not KT. So even if you assume 100,000 kg of bombs (high by a factor of 4, I think), your estimate on the number of sorties is still low by three orders of magnitude. (the Kilo part of kiloton) Yep, that's right, folks. Its...

To copy from somewhere... Cuthullu in 2012! Why settle for the lesser of two evils? Belushi TD