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  1. No spice trade

    Impossible! He who controls the Spice controls the Universe!
  2. japanese use wmds at pearl

    The U.S. military either debated or actually went to FDR with a request to use Gas on Peleliu (I've read both versions, as well as if they wanted to use non-lethal e.g. C/S or lethal gas). By that point in the war the U.S. could take advantage of the weapon in the Island campaign but the...
  3. japanese use wmds at pearl

    It isn't certain that the UK would use the weapons, but once the event horizon was crossed it is a lot easier to see it expand. The British would have to be worried that the IJA would use the weapon on them once they were driven back onto the Island if the Japanese had already demonstrated a...
  4. Pacific War Redux

    Thanks for the detailed comments!
  5. Pacific War Redux

    Both are correct. The Japanese built thousands of utterly useless recon aircraft that could have just as easily been fighters or medium bombers (the U.S. used P-38 variants, or even just field modified P-38s in this role while the RAF used Mosquitos). Most of these recon platforms were...
  6. japanese use wmds at pearl

    Japan finds itself in a seriously degraded position. Chemical weapons won't sink a warship, not even destroy an aircraft unless you hit it dead on. Warships are pretty resistant to chemical weapons and they have the ability to wash down at an extremely rapid rate. Even if the Japanese dedicate...
  7. Pacific War Redux

    Didn't I already do that?:confused: :D
  8. Prinz Eugen In 1945

    I hope you copywrited this. Otherwise some Hollywood flack is going to steal it.
  9. Pacific War Redux

    Actually it was supposed to be Baaan Baaan Black Sheep. :D
  10. Pacific War Redux

    Just an overall thank you to everyone who has provided feedback as the TL has progressed and especially to those who have kept with the TL as it has slowed down.:) I will be putting it back on the front burner shortly and updates should be much more frequent. I would also remind everyone who...
  11. Pacific War Redux

    The Japanese have followed their general assault plansfor most of the DEI. The invasion of Sumatra began on Febuary 9th and is noted in the TL. Sumatra fell on March 19 and is again noted.
  12. Pacific War Redux

    Yes, the Japanese have everything but Java. Java is next on the agenda and will probably be in the next post. Been busy with too many other side project. Checking the REAL history of Brewster Buffalo. :D I'll take a gander at your lastest updates. I like your take on the possibilities.
  13. Pacific War Redux

    Actually you are a post ahead of them. The rest of the DEI is in their hands.
  14. Pacific War Redux

    A somewhat briefer update than I planned. More this weekend.:) Comments? March 18, 1942 (Malaya) 01:00 hrs local – Japanese company grade officers begin what will be a series of atrocities against Commonwealth PoWs taken when the final British/Australian toehold on Malaya was overrun...
  15. The Strategy of Thermonuclear War

    In 1983? I've posted on this MANY times in the past here, so I'ii go with the short version: No city, world wide, with a population over 100,000 survives (and most in Asia, Europe, North American, and the Middle East over 25K eat at least one weapon). The chances are 90%+ (based on every...
  16. The Strategy of Thermonuclear War

    Couple of problems with this theory. The U.S. had no clue that they had a massive advantage. They believed that the U.S. was, at best, in parity with the Soviets or that the USSR was slightly ahead (in the late '50's there was the famed "missile gap", that particular fiction had been debunked...
  17. Pacific War Redux

    More to come either tonight or tomorrow.
  18. The Falklands War & Vulcans...

    Waste of time, effot and jet fuel. The RAF strike was useful only in that it was a fairly pointed reminder to the Argentine junta exactly what they had picked a fight with, namely a country that could, if pushed hard enough, lay waste to all of Argentina. In Argentine hands, all it would have...
  19. The Strategy of Thermonuclear War

    Not even close. The Echo's were crap and the U.S. had tons of ASW aimed at preventing exactly the scenario imagined here. Decapitation of the NCA, at least in the 1960's, was pointless. (Ironically, there may be a better chance of it working today, given the much reduced readiness state.) The...
  20. Can the Nazis develop nukes by 1943?

    No. NO. NO! Germany lacked the raw materials, the science, the money and most critically, the belief that it could be done. This is VERY well plowed gound here. MAy want to search for some of the other threads for some of heartbreakingly detailed analysis of why this is utterly...
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