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Here is an alternative-history challenge: create a timeline where Switzerland develops its own nuclear weapons program. Bonus points if it is unclear which side Switzerland would join in the event of nuclear world war between superpowers.

A while back there was a thread in post-1900 forum asking what POD would result in Israel having better relations with Arab countries. One of the responses was for Israelis to as early as possible ethnically cleanse (through deporting, not genociding) ALL the Palestinians. The reasoning was that...

Inspired by responses in this thread: So with pre-1900 POD(s) and preferably minimal butterflies, your job is to by 20th century flip as many cultural/national/ethnic stereotypes on their head as you can. Jews are gangster (in the “modern” sense of the word, not 1930s sense), blacks manipulate...

Is there any way for Warsaw Pact to remain intact as a defensive agreement past the fall of Iron Curtain? It doesn't have to maintain all of its members - perhaps it can became an anti-Russian alliance by the Easter European countries?

I recently read an article discussing the theory the Prophet Muhammad’s life was greatly fictionalized in the Koran and/or that Prophet Muhammad never existed in the first place but was a fictional composite of several real people/local legends. Of course, similar hypothesis exist about Jesus...

Inspired by the recent Al Qaeda targets [blank] threads. I don’t recall what Osama Bin Laden’s exact views of Saudi Arabian government were, but what if he insists that the Saudi’s are traitors to Islam for supplying the Great Satan with oil? So what if instead of carrying out 9/11, Al Qaeda...

I have seen a TL on here where Al Qaeda undergoes a change in leadership in 1990s and instead of targeting America boasts to assist their Muslim freedom-fighters in Chechnya and Chinese East Turkestan. I think the TL was abandoned, but what do you think would happen? What if Al Qaeda devoted...

I was wondering, what POD or series of PODs would be needed for groups like Red Army Faction and/or “Revolutionary Cells” Group to become powerful, popular and influential enough to be in position to launch left-wing revolution in West Germany? NOTE: if the revolutionary organization(s) are...

I was just thinking about the prevalence of Hitler and W.W.2 in alternative history fiction even if the POD makes Hitler’s rise to power very unlikely. However, W.W.2 and Holocaust was important for discrediting certain political movements & raciest ideas and to a great extent shaped the 20th...

OK, here is a thought: Let’s assume a POD (or PODs) result in a lack of U.S. hegemony in North America. What POD (or PODs)? It’s up to you: a much, much worst Civil War resulting in U.S. breaking apart into several nations, British imposing harsher peace terms after the War of 1812, whatever...

(Disclaimer: I do not support Islamophobia nor do I support fear of Orthodox Church. Somehow though, this AHC idea popped into my mind, wondering how such a bizarre scenario could arrise) As I am sure we all know, there are fears in certain circles about “Islamazation”/“Arabization” of...

20th century has seen the creation of a number of nations that have been “dead” as independent states for centuries: Poland, Baltic States, various Balkan nations, etc. Thus, the challenge is to add one more nation to the roster of revived states of the 20th century: the Holy Roman Empire!

As we all know, North Korea is a totalitarian state dominated by a personality cult of Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, etc. But something I was curious about – is there any way to go even further than a Kim personality cult? Could an actual religion arise (either in the past or in future) based...

It is often pointed out how crazy it was for Hitler to declare war on Germany’s much bigger neighbor that supplied it with oil, grain and other raw materials needed by the Third Reich. So a thought occurred to me: what if Mr. Kill-all-Slavs-Jews-and-Gypsies kicks the bucket at some point and...

Wouldn’t that be ironic? Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is making hipster style part of the mainstream culture rather than a counterculture/subculture it is today. If you want to, you can make the obscure music/hobbies/whatever OTL hipsters like mainstream too but this is...

With any pre-1900 POD you like, create a situation where the United States of America (NOT some ATL analog thereof where North America is never colonized or some-such) has a Native American language which is either A) A second official language in a bilingual state within the U.S.A. – it...

Is it possible (either in the past or in the future) for U.K.-U.S. Special Relationship to go the way of the Sino–Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance? A rather sudden souring of relations and then outright hostility? Any P.O.D has to be after 1945.

I read on this site that after the overthrowing of the Iranian Shah in 1979 the socialist faction stood a good chance of gaining power until they were outmaneuvered by Khomeini’s Islamic faction. So what would happen if socialists/communists took power instead of Khomeini? Would Iran ally with...

Your challenge is to make Zimbabwe as “well off” as possible in the present day starting with a POD no earlier than the nation’s independence in 1979. Ready? Set? Go!

What would be the best time in 20th century for Canada to join U.S.A. peacefully?