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  1. President Trump - 2001

    Hmmm.... Chances of this going current political in the first 20 posts: 100%. Locked.
  2. Recovery time from 1983 World War Three

    That is the most depressing part. The hopelessness at the conclusion. That world was done. Even the rudimentary government controls remaining were closer to feudalism than anything else. Literacy is a very fragile thing. If people are literally killing themselves trying to get enough food to...
  3. Recovery time from 1983 World War Three

    Actually the scenarios involving the Middle East were pretty close to reality. Short of the Soviet leadership flat going insane (aka Red Storm Rising) and blowing through the Fulda Gap, the ony way the U.S./USSR engage is in a periphery escalation. By the late 70s/early 80s that was the Middle...
  4. Recovery time from 1983 World War Three

    No. That's why they make different movies. Tastes vary.
  5. Recovery time from 1983 World War Three

    I have always been fairly cynical, barely even snivel at the end of Ol' Yeller, but Threads was like getting kicked in the nuts.
  6. Recovery time from 1983 World War Three

    Again it is and isn't destroyed. You will not find a lump of it, but you will find particles in the ash. When you are talking about 0.25 milligrams, a particle is all it takes, unfortunately.
  7. Recovery time from 1983 World War Three

    Threads is so depressing that it should come with a coupon for free counseling and/or a straight razor and illustrated instructions on how to find the main artery in the forearm.
  8. Recovery time from 1983 World War Three

    It is and it isn't. Only a relatively small percentage of the fissile material is expended, even in a multi-stage weapon. what is not converted is found in the fall-out(this is, in fact, how the source of a weapon can be determined. Each reactor, in fact each sector of a reactor, has a unique...
  9. Recovery time from 1983 World War Three

    Actually I would dispute that. The U.S. program was ended by Nixon, several years before the BWC discussions even began. He unilaterally dismantled the program (a debate still exists regarding his reasons, some commentators believe it was mostly politically motivated since U.S. public opinion...
  10. Case Gold

    Case gold = Fall Gelb This is the code name for the 1940 invasion of France. It is often translated into English as Case (or Fall) Yellow. AFAIK there was never even a serious Heer staff study on the idea after 1910.
  11. Canadian tanks, troops, guns and planes to Malaya, Oct 1941

    Well, Hong Kong was an utter waste of effort. It makes pretty much every other colonial position Gibraltar by comparison. Indefensible doesn't begin to describe it.
  12. Recovery time from 1983 World War Three

    Plutonium has a half life of 24,000 years and the fall-out will include tons of it. A quarter of a milligram of plutonium oxide inhaled is lethal.
  13. Recovery time from 1983 World War Three

    The PRC isn't mentioned because, in the greater scheme of things, it simply doesn't matter any more than the British, French, and Israeli independent deterrents matter in a full exchange. Combined all the second tier powers total stockpiles do not hit 5% of either sides long range deliverable...
  14. AHC: White Boers form a nation after 1994

    Yet not one single word about the violence and sexual assault all being directed at White women. I don't have any illusion about the level of violence associated with war, civil or international. I doubted, and still do doubt, that White women would be the sole target. I am REALLY trying not...
  15. Technical question about extended range artillery ideas applied to AAA

    The 12.8cm shell was close to three times the weight of the 8.8cm, that gave it a vastly larger shrapnel radius and a correspondingly higher hit probability. The 128mm had a higher velocity because it was propelled by roughly 400% more power in each charge. redesigning the 8.8cm Flak breech to...
  16. AHC: White Boers form a nation after 1994

    That was not what he said and you know it. He was VERY specific regarding the race of the alleged victims AND of the assailants. Unless you wish to get caught up in what has the potential to be an unfortunate exchange, I would recommend that you let him defend his own position, if he can.
  17. Technical question about extended range artillery ideas applied to AAA

    The reality is that the size of the shell, the bursting charge and the resulting amount of and lethal range of shrapnel is vastly more important to AAA than range extension. Getting an extra 5,000 feet of altitude is of little use if the 128mm gun is now firing what amounts to a 25mm light flak...
  18. If France lost World War 1 to Germany in 1918 would they have turned communist?

    ...and this is a formal warning not to threadcrap/troll/derail threads
  19. If France lost World War 1 to Germany in 1918 would they have turned communist?

    Please do not threadcrap/troll/derail threads
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