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  1. McKinley lives - outcomes?

    Would McKinley get involved in helping the Panamanian rebels to secede from Colombia to gain control of the canal zone? If not, a Nicaraguan route would be the way to go, but what would McKinley do for it? Maybe building a canal would fall to a later president or a European country. As for the...

  2. McKinley lives - outcomes?

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  3. McKinley lives - outcomes?

    So if William McKinley isn't assassinated in 1901 and finishes his second term, what are the effects of this? Specific questions: How does this affect the Venezuelan Crisis in 1903 and the US acquisition of the Panama Canal? Is TR running for president in 1904 plausible, or is '08 or '12...

  4. Earlier and greater purge of Jewish intellectualism in Nazi Germany

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  5. Earlier and greater purge of Jewish intellectualism in Nazi Germany

    Many Jewish physicists and other enemies of the Nazi Party fled the country after Hitler came into power, who later went on to make major contributions to the British and later the American atomic bomb project. Is it plausible that a high-ranking Nazi Party leader such as Goebbels could have...

  6. WI: 1925 German Presidential Election - No Hindenburg

    Though Hindenburg originally had no interest in running for public office during the 1925 election, he was subsequently persuaded by Alfred von Tirpitz to run in the second round of the election. Had Tirpitz failed to convince Hindenburg, how different would the outcome of the runoff election...

  7. Use of tactical nuclear weapons in a NATO - WP war late 1950s

    If these two went to war in Europe, who would have had the greatest intent to use tactical nukes on the battlefield? Also, could strategic nuclear weapons be used in addition to tactical ones against ground forces? These are the TNW's/rockets I could find that were deployed in Europe at that...

  8. Gingrich

    When was that picture of Gingrich painted?

  9. Len Bias Lives

    This, aside from President Kennedy still being alive, a 20-something day Stock Market closure and the Obamas moving into the new White House. :)

  10. Delay the Great Depression until 1931

    No replies? I am disappointed :(

  11. Delay the Great Depression until 1931

    What political/economical changes will be necessary to accomplish this? What will be the effects of the depression now better coinciding with the start of the dust bowl? How will this affect the rest of the world's economies? How worse will this new depression be? I'd really like to know...

  12. 1980s culture in 2000s instead?

    What would be some causes of 1980s pop culture, such as fashion and music, being prevalent in the 2000s decade instead?

  13. NYC in a nuclear exchange

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  14. NYC in a nuclear exchange

    Targets for NYC/NJ and power plants in Indian Point and Bethpage.

  15. NYC in a nuclear exchange

    Midtown Manhattan - 750 kilotons Lower Manhattan - 750 kilotons Downtown Newark - 350 kilotons Harlem River - 350 kilotons George Washington Bridge - 350 kilotons Verazano Narrows Bridge - 350 kilotons Lincoln Tunnel - 350 kilotons Holand Tunnel - 350 kilotons Bayway Refinery - 350...

  16. NYC in a nuclear exchange

    I've made a map for targets in and around New York City proper.

  17. NYC in a nuclear exchange

    Would we see some more strikes in Queens/Brooklyn to kill off a few million more people?

  18. NYC in a nuclear exchange

    How often do you think they'd be updated?

  19. NYC in a nuclear exchange

    Would a 1MT burst over Lower Manhattan be enough to take out the Holland and the Battery?

  20. NYC in a nuclear exchange

    I'd like to know more about this too. I've made a list of some targets I've thought of. Midtown Manhattan Lower Manhattan Downtown Brooklyn Harlem River Verazano Narrows Bridge Bayonne Brooklyn Navy Yard Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal Port Jersey Laguardia Airport JFK Airport Newark Airport
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