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"A decision on the proposal that an all-out effort be undertaken for the development of the "Super" cannot in our opinion be separated from consideration of broad national policy. A weapon like the "Super" is only an advantage when its energy release is from 100-1000 times greater than that of...

During the Great War, British Soldiers as part of their army rations had access to chocolate and rum on the eve of going over the top into no-mans-land. The sugar providing a minor sugar rush, the chocolate encouraging the production of dopamines, the alcohol reducing the soldiers inhibitions...

Wide Tracked and Diesel Panzers What would have been the effect of the Panzer I, Panzer II (and hence III and IV) having been built with Diesel powerplants rather than petrol (what would be the most likely replacement manufacturer?), and provided with wider tank treads ~40cm...?

Premise: How would have WWII progressed had, on the 20th of September 1939, Britain (initially) and her Colonies and the Commonwealth (later), also declared war against the Soviet Union for her part in the Invasion of Poland. For the sake of handwaivem in the British political stage, let us...

AHC: World War Zero, or all is quiet on the western front... Short Premise: What points of divergence could come together to have a 'first world war' last to the Atomic Bomb Age? Longer Premise: How could a 'first world war' develop into a form of 'Cold War' with the stalemate in the...

WI / AHC: All of the Great Powers get 'wanked' PODs There are many threads that ask about scenarios where how would Great Powers like Britain, or Imperial Germany, take over the world? The aim of this thread is to take several nations at once, and try and set up conditions such that all of...

What if the Soviet Union followed China's reform policies of economic liberalisation, while maintaining the Soviet Political structure, in an analogous way to how China has adopted 'State Capitalism' while maintaining the Chinese Communist party system. The collapse of the Soviet Union can be...

June 23rd 1940 What if following the fall of Poland and France a group of French forces that have already gone underground in Paris are tipped off to Hitler’s visit and stage a successful resistance assassination attempt on the Fuhrer while touring the Eiffel Tower? How does Nazi Germany react...

How ASB is it, for Imperial Japan to have not sparked the Mukden Incident (or events leading up to it 1920s - 1931) And; To have pursued reform of the IJA during the 1930s preventing the military take over during the mid-late 1930s, instead leaving Japan a 'democratic power' going into the war...

AHC/WI/TL: Atlantropa gets built post Great War Atlantropia: That's an artists impression above. The Med, look a bit strange to you? Sardinia a bit big?... OH HOLY BJESUS where's the Adriatic gone? What the!? The Alien Space Bats must have landed!! Quick Hans, we need to leave for the Indies...

Pick a country, and write its history! Don't like the existing nations? Start a revolution sometime in the time period and build a new nation for the time line! This is not a 'what if?' thread. It is a thread designed to redraw the map of Europe in any way contributors want, but...