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It's a simple, small and relatively straight forward butterfly. Some 1000 people die of malaria every day in the present day, so why not a 75 year old man in prison in 1944 in India? His health suffered significantly from his fasts. His death will set off massive but brief riots for sure...

Discussing the original question the real reason for partition was not Jinnah, it was Gandhi. Jinnah actually criticized strongly the formation of the Muslim League. He was opposed to partition until pretty late in the independence movement. The reason he pushed for partition was because he was...

I thought this thread was supposed to be about the feasibility of a Soviet invasion of Hokkaido, not about what the American response, or the lack thereof, would be to such an invasion. Nevermind, it seems that boat has long since sailed. That said i believe there are a few points to keep in...

Just curious, what rifle is this shown in the picture here. Pardon my ignorance. Thank you.

Even if Nazis go for more 'reasonable' R&D projects and streamline production, the result will still be a Nazi defeat. Let us say their designs do get better and they have more production, what do they do with it? I'll assume these changes are started in June 1940, they will not play a role in...

1) At Kyushu it was to be 14 divisions roughly. Kanto was to be undertaken with 40 divisions, with the First Army at Boso Peninsula and Eight at Hiratsuka. 2) Japanese intially had only one combat ready division in Kyushu in March 1945, they later bumped that up to 14 by August by drawing down...

@PoorBoy That is correct, but the question is how much longer would the Japanese hold out with a soviet invasion but no nukes? And as @ObssesedNuker rightly points out it could've only been a few weeks to maybe a couple of months with a soviet invasion of Manchuria, Korea, Kurils etc. In which...

Suppose the Allies decide not to drop the Bomb on Hiroshima or Nagasaki. In fact let's say they decide to not drop the bomb on Japan, at all. Was there any alternative way to defeat Japan? That is apart from an invasion? The Americans had a tight blockade around the Japanese home islands and...

Hi Back, I am Dad! OK bad dad jokes aside, welcome back! Can't wait for the next update! :)

I love this one. Mind if i use it on a girl i know? As for the puns, lets stop now. We will wait for your next update before commenting again @Pericles . Keep the updates coming.

Let's list out potential Augustus succession PoDs I can think of. Potential successors are - Marcellus, Gaius, Lucius, Drusus the Elder and then Tiberius. I am ignoring the ones like Agrippa Posthumus that fell out of Augustus's favor. Given the kind of shrewd and astute politician he was, if...

Yes of course only the US could manage those rates of production which it had in the build up to the cold war and in the early cold war. But they were still not impressive. In 1945, the us only had a handful of bomb assembly teams and could make 6 bombs a year, something which Stalin didn't...

I am sure everyone here has heard of the Maginot Line. I was reading up about it today and was surprised to learn that is cost 3 billion Francs when it was built between 1929 and 1938. 3 billion Francs back then is comparable to 1.5 billion Euros (2007). That is a lot of money, comparable in...

I wish I could upvote that!

Or it could just potentially upset the apple cart more. Without OTL Bangladesh included in a Republic of India and the transportation links passing through it, communication with the North East is very complicated. With Bangladesh included communication with the North East and even with Burma...

Close but no cigar! Sorry! You aren't killing the man you are immortalizing him by making a martyr out of him. It might have worked, if Gandhi hadn't already so thoroughly marginalized Jinnah in the INC by 1920 and then proceeded to destroy Jinnah political career, that he left politics for...

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Forum. I present to you the most intractable of problems. The partition of India into India and Pakistan using a PoD not before 1900. Your challenge should you choose to accept it is to prevent this from happening with a PoD post-1900. This isn't mission...

This report. Please read it. http://www.ippnw.org/pdf/nuclear-famine-two-billion-at-risk-2013.pdf Give this report a look. It may look like hyperbole, but just check out the details. I believe the claim holds water. Billions may not die but hundreds of millions surely might.... Who knows i...

All the oceans disappeared? Wouldn't that destroy all life as we know it? I think it is much more plausible that was a sea-level drop of a couple of hundred meters rather than entire oceans just boiling away. And even what could possibly explain that? I mean no climatologist but shouldn't...

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