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Assasination or not, Cheney would not run in 2008. He said as much pretty explictly several times. McCain would likely still get the nomination, and much easier than OTL, as he was the national security candidate. Clinton would more likely get the Democratic nomination, but would find it hard...

The FOBS (Fractional Orbital Bombarment System) designs were in response to the Outer Space Treaty, and designed to circumvent it. They would basically put a warhead into LEO and then deorbit it before it made a full revolution. That's the "fractional orbit" part. I'll need to do some further...

Not nessisarily; a lot of the talk of orbital platforms had them at GEO, so their orbits would be quite stable. From GEO it would just about be eaiser to dispose of them into the Moon than Earth. The GEO platforms make sense as it you can attack the area below you (i.e. the central land masses...

So, if Yalta ends in a mess, and the WAllies end up with roughly modern Germany, Austria, and Czech Republic, what happens then? IOTL, the rough lines at Yalta and the subsequent UN Treaty were the main things keeping the peace before the first Soviet nuclear test. If Yalta fails, I doubt a...

Pershing didn't become operational until 1963, and didn't have nearly the same range (460 mi vs. 1500 mi), and a much smaller yield (0.4 MT vs. 1.45 MT). It's not exactly a drop-in replacement. A ground-based version of Polaris would be the closest drop-in replacement (Jupiter was deisgned...

Again, you guys are being great armchair-quatermasters, but not great armchair-deputy ministers. ;) I can totally belive that the Germans could not hold Moscow if they took it. Fine, but that's not the point. Moscow is not some town of peasants like most of the cities the Germans have taken so...

Which, I'm sure would make excellant cannon fodder/minefield cleaners, but that doesn't really count for much. If, through a combination of Soviet mistakes and German luck, the Germans did take Moscow, then what? The USSR was super-centralized and a German effort to burn the paperwork and...

Britain's could not be accelerated more, but the US could. Dead King George would make the propaganda effort in the US much easier, and potentially lead to more and sooner Lend-Lease.

He has a PoD back in the 3rd century AD, and yet somehow the OTL KMT still exists...

I am a professional astronomer, and the Sun is very much a star, type G2V. ;)

I think it's more playing off the tendency/tradition of Utah Mormons to give their children "creative" names. I've heard some genuinely strange ones over the years.

Alt Canadian Flag, based on real proposal: http://scaa.usask.ca/gallery/flagdisplay/design26.htm

The first military use would be calculating artillery ranging tables. That was extremely tedious, but necessary, work and needed to be done for every combination of gun and shell and wind and so forth. Eventually, someone from the RN will put an analytical engine on a ship to calculate ranges...

Ditto; "Greater Egypt" felt both creative and plausible. I'd love to see the rest of that world.

What, the Durango & Silverton doesn't exist in your TL? What a sad world that would be. ;)

Setting the delivery system aside, I think the real question is: What do you consider British? ;) While it would have perfectly plausible for the UK to design their own bomb (and they did in 1947), the practical difficultly is in actually making the fissile material. Both main methods...

General Strike leads to (non-democratic) Communist takeover of Britain. Royal family and loyalist politicians flee to Canada. Some parts of the Empire declare independence (e.g. India), while the Dominions and the remainder of the colonies form an Imperial Federation. The British...

Wouldn't a llama be more apropriate? ;)

That only works briefly (less than half an hour) and basically just annouces that you're doing a raid. It worked for the Allies because the Germans had to conserve their few fighters and put them in the way of the bombers. The RAF in the BoB would just go to high alert if jammed and cover all of...

Well, in the TL I need to finish, he becomes the first man in space. Really.