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So, I'm writing an article on the subject and have been reading David K. Johnson's book and (thus) I'm now acquainted with the lavender scare. Would it be possible for it not to happen and (specifically) for Washington D.C. continuing to have a vibrant LGBT culture well into the seventies and...

Had not a Genghis figure ascended to unify Mongolia, could some other people around the same time go in a conquering spree, filling the space the mongols did in our universe? I mean, is there some sort of cultural exceptionalism that made the mongols the mongols or could some other nation have...

So the october revolution divided the once strong and unified WW1-era socialist movements of various countries (like Brazil) in leninist and libertarian socialist/anarchist factions. Down the line the leninists (and their subsequent ideological progeny: stalinists, maoists, trotskyists etcetera)...

Recently i've been reading Philip of Spain by Henry Kamen (what do you guys think of the book, btw?) and it says that the Duke of Alba's governorship of the Netherlands was disastrous and public opinion in Europe was outraged by his repression, which in turn made Spain isolated. It also says...

I just found out about Project Orion. So... Could it be done? Could we have it by avoiding the partial test ban treaty? With a POD in the 60s, how far in the space race could we be today? More importantly, wouldn't it be too expensive? Why would the US/USSR wish to engage in such a pharaonic...

What would be the earliest possible date we could see a pseudo-glasnost and a pseudo-perestroika? I was thinking of someone else than Stalin ascending to the soviet general secretaryship and keeping the NEP. Not sure about the pseudo-glasnost, though. Also, the Soviet Union must survive to the...

On the vein of how we had a polynesian migration into Madagascar which kept their language, could we have some africans landing in a sparsely populated region on the Americas and keeping a language isolate there? Or, otherwise, some (native) americans landing somewhere in Africa? Also, which...

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/04/24/bush.taiwan.abc/ What if 911 did not happen and Bush made his main external focus a defense of Taiwan? What if it evolved into a war? The results would be catastrophical, and would fit into a "most chaotic 2000s possible" thread, right? :eek:

So, what i'm asking is: In the event of the cold war going hot, did nations necessarily had to deploy their full nuclear arsenal at each other? Couldn't we have a conventional war or a 'limited' nuclear war (for example, just one or two nukes deployed?) Is this ASB?

Hello lads, i've been lurkin' for a while, first thread here. So, i've been thinking about this... Should a muslim nation (an Al-Andalus nation resisting the Reconquista, some Almohad-like entity remaining powerful in northwest Africa, dunno) colonize America, where would they get their...