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  1. The Russians Get the Bomb First

    As you note the "formal" beginning of the purges was well prior your initial POD. You will find, however, that the actually culling of intellectuals and Jews (which in nuclear physics of the era was often the same target) had begun soon after Stalin rose to power in the '20's. The "brainiacs"...
  2. The Russians Get the Bomb First

    Given the state of the Soviet economy & the toll that purges had taken on scientists, it is hard to imagine HWO the USSR could pull the feat off. The U.S. succeeded because the United States threw half the money in the world at the problem, had pretty much the Who's Who of physics working on...
  3. Most morbid AH

    WW3? That's not even the most morbid WW 3 Story I've read! It just stirred up a bunch O'$%#^ 'round here.:)
  4. Most morbid AH

    I Am Legend. When you are the only normal human left in a world of Vampires and it kill or be killed, that's pretty bad. When you find out that a lot of the "Vampires" you killed WEREN'T really vampires:eek:, but humans living with the disease with the result that the remnants of the Human...
  5. Freddie Mercury does not contract AIDS

    Queen was nearing its expiration date a a band. Musical tastes were headed in a very different direction so the short term impact would be minimal. Longer term, had he lived, there would almost certainly be a reunion, "oldies" tour. Of almost more interest is the question of how the...
  6. wi:8,000 Polish Paras were dropped into Warsaw during the Rising?

    Waste of some damned good Airborne Infantry.
  7. Venezuela invades Dutch Antilles

    Not really. The Doctrine referred to NEW European colonization or interference with legitimate governments in the Americas. The Netherland Antillies have voted, overwhelmingly, to remain in association with The Netherlands (the highest vote total for independence was 5% on Curcao, with the...
  8. Z plan

    The Kiev's were considered a threat due to their rather impressive missile loadout. Their Yak-38s were a credible threat to single vessels, but they were far from a reasonable threat to a properly escorted convoy or Battle Group. The problems that the USSR had with the Kiev's and the Kuztensov...
  9. Venezuela invades Dutch Antilles

    This would be a gilded invitation to the United States to eliminate Chavez's regime. The NATO Alliance specifically excludes the Carribean region being discussed, but the U.S. has any number of other treaties and precedents that would make American intervention a forgone conclusion.
  10. Britians Naval rearmment

    18" or 20" guns are a waste of effort. A 16"/50 or /55 is far easier to make, easier to load, requires a less massive ship to carry, allowing for a faster, more manueverable, less resource intensive vessel. You save enough that you can build four, perhaps five of the 16" ships instead of three...
  11. Z plan

    Quaint? Perhaps. Exactly how many traps did the most experienced German pilot have? How many landing had the LSO INSTRUCTOR overseen? How much experience did the Kriegsmarine have in Fixed Wing operations in the North Atlantic? NONE. They had no way to get the practice, no way to test...
  12. Z plan

    Well the carriers are worthless without aircraft. Since Goring would fight the Kreigsmarine tooth & nail on the subject, you can count on the carrier planes being an afterthought. NONE of the Luftwaffe designs, save perhaps the JU-87 (and this is a BIG maybe) are readily adaptable for ship-board...
  13. Jericho: Who Murdered the United States

    It depends I guess on how you define loss. While a single 1 MT weapon would leave 4 of five residents of the Greater London region relatively intact, they would be left in a devestated region, with huge numbers of uncontrolled fires, a crippled transport network, no usable electronics due to EMP...
  14. Bismark, a what if...

    Brain cramp!:o
  15. Bismark, a what if...

    Bismarck was NEVER the most powerful ship afloat. She was FASTER than the U.S. Battleships from the pre-treaty days, but her guns were not as heavy & fired a smaller (1,800 pound vs 2,700 pound), less well designed shell. The American 16" 45 cal gun that was standard on the Colorado class, as...
  16. Germany surviving into 1946 (WW2 POD)

    These were paper studies that had not even reached the prototype stage. LOTS of promising designs, for all sides, never get off the drawing boards or turn out to be failures once they have a prototype to test. While it is not at all unlikely that the Luftwaffe would have had a small number of...
  17. Germany surviving into 1946 (WW2 POD)

    Much more likely P-80s and F-84s. The Shooting Star, Meteor, & Swallow had virtually identical performance (with the slight edge going the the Brisish & American designs) and the 1st forward deployed flight of P-80s was in England in January '45. It's possible you might have even seen Phantoms...
  18. World War I with Nukes

    edit: Never mind.
  19. WI Soviet Exports Consumer Goods to the West

    Let's see, a list of consumer products that the USSR made in sufficient quality to sell ANYWHERE outside of the Soviet Block: Babushka dolls Vodka (and not much of that. Most of the domestic Russian stuff is worse than drinking Sterno) AK-47's and ummm..... Well, that about...
  20. More Improvised Airforces?

    This would be correct IF we were still in a exclusively ground based radar enviroment. To use the Carribean example, the systems there are almost all air based and you almost literally need to be flying THROUGH tunnels to escape it. Over water, you are dead meat, the newest doppler based radars...
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