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  1. Which of the Axis Powers could have lasted the longest?

    Overall the Italians could have lasted the longest. They, of the three players, were the ones with the least to gain from engaging the Western democracies head on. The Reich was pretty much doomed from the minute that Hitler decided to stab Stalin in the back before either defeating (pretty...
  2. Just curious: Soviet black ops?

    The Soviets had their Spetsnaz out across the globe, probably in more "hot" situations than the U.S. (and the rest of NATO). When you add in the Cubans, who were used by Moscow as something of a direct action arm, the Bear had his claws in a LOT of pies. This does not even begin to consider...
  3. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Thanks for the kind words. The Anthrax will actually be deadly for a lot longer than 48 years. It took several decades to clean up Gruinard Island, but the contaminated area was actually quite small, well under a square mile in total area and the British used roughly .75 tons of formaldehyde...
  4. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Without going too far into this rather facinating side debate, I would simply note that it was, in fact, the Reich that initiated use of bio-weapons, including an effort, albeit a weak one, that was against the civilian population of the UK.
  5. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Actually, from my personal 2011 perspective, I do not disagree with you one bit. For that matter, again from my own 2011 perspective, use of a couple dozen nuclear weapons and the killing of a several million civilians in response to the death of 20,000 is beyond the Pale. From the...
  6. Anti-Ottomanism?

    How did I miss this post? Oh yea, I decided to kick you before I got to it. Congratulations. You are my first non-spammer Banhammer recipient. Banned for Virulent trolling.
  7. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Without getting into the end-game and post war world too far, the use of Anthrax was very much a message, not just to today's Reich but to future enemies as well. OTL Hiroshima was rebuilt (current population 1.1 million), Nagasaki was rebuilt (current population 440,000), Dresden was rebuilt...
  8. Anti-Ottomanism?

    Wow! An actual set of bigoted trolling posts in Books and Media! It may not be a first, but its still pretty damned rare. I could chalk up a couple of your posts to English as a Second Language, but things just keep getting worse. If you had quit with the post quoted above, this would have...
  9. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Only one, France. Of course it is really the only one that matters except Italy. Denmark and Romania are also no longer allies, but they are keeping that little fact to themselves.
  10. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    You won't get that many case of inhalation anthrax, not even with modern weaponized anthrax. The number of direct deaths would be low, probably less than 10% of the population exposed, with 3-4% being more likely. What you will get is an intensely contaminated region that is uninhabitable...
  11. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Most of the U.S. weapons were MK 7 61KT weapons (these were dropped by the Thuds), along with W-28 Mod 1 warhead in the Hounddog missiles (AMG-28)and B-28 Mod 1 from the B-58s, yielding 1.1MT. The A-5 Vigilante, were armed with MK 27 2MT weapons (and the Navy is just about out of them since they...
  12. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    4 Montanas and 6 Iowas
  13. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    New Hampshire was/is supposed to be a Montana class BB. American battleships are always named for states (except one, USS Keasarge, back in the 19th Century). Montanas were meant to have 12 x 16"/50 guns as the main battery. There is a reason that the the USN has a big role in the attacks...
  14. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Not that anyone will be able to live there without a few billion dollars of cleanup.
  15. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    And here's the update you have been waiting for... Comments? 40 The Allied response began well before the deadline on bases within 30 miles of London and as far away as North America. The somber (and often enraged) air crews were each given a flyer when entering the briefing rooms that the...
  16. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Oh yea, Sir Arthur is about as close as you can get to to a sociapath among OTL's Allied senior leadership. Made LeMay look like a peacenik. Scary bastard.
  17. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    That is a fair statement. Brilliant guy, but not the most charming fellow in the room. IOTL that trait kept him from the SecState job under JFK.
  18. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Well, you did ask. BTW: One reason that the total is slighly higher than you suggest is that the U.S. has not taken the older weaons, which can only be delivered by super heavy bombers, out of the inventory. Well, IOTL Churchill made abundently clear that the RAF would use BIOLOGICAL weapons...
  19. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Well, there is quite a bit of difference between using 1.5kt weapons against enemy bomber formations over the Atlantic and dropping 1.5mt weapons on cities. Just sayin...
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