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  1. Which was the worst disaster that occured in the 20th Century

    Actual disasters? Bophal. It kills more than bugs dead. Textbook example of industrial neglect. Massacres? Rwanda. The most humans killed by other men in a day since Nagasaki, and it was done by HAND! Political Blunders? Putting Lenin on the train. Mass killers? Mao, with Stalin in a...
  2. Most Important Historical US Site per State?

    Here's a few. Oregon - Seaside Lewis & Clark slept here (for months) California - San Diego, site of the first Mission in the Spanish Mission system; Sutter's Mill, The world rushed in, San Francisco, Whole lot of shaking going on Wyoming - Ft. Phil Kearney, Fetterman Massacre, Be...
  3. Republicans run Colin Powel Against Clinton in 1996

    Powell gets killed by some mouth breathing racist asshole.
  4. Nuclear War, 1968

    The Prauge Spring is your best bet by far. The USSR wasn't going to destroy the Planet over Hanoi and neither side was going to kill a billion people over the Pueblo Incident. The Czechs? Well that could be something else altogether. If the U.S. decides that They won't let the Soviets crush...
  5. "I Refuse to Obey on Constitutional Grounds"

    The difference is, generally, clear cut. "Take part in this patrol of Village XYZ." is a legal order. "Kill every third resident of village XYZ." is not. Of course, everything isn't that clear cut, but the principle is plain. Don't accept an order that is a crime under the UCMJ. Report all...
  6. WI S&M more "accepting"

    In Modern times? Has there EVER been a time period where such a relationship (where one person doesn't REALLY own or have similar power over the other) was considered acceptable? Sexual habits have, since privacy was invented, been a matter kept out of public view. How could it happen? 1...
  7. AH Challenge: USSR Real Worker's Paradise by 2000

    1. Nicholas does NOT marry Alix of Hesse 2. Nicholas DOES marry Princess Margaret of Prussia, Archduchess Maria Valerie of Austria or most ANYONE other than Alix (Baroness Mary Vetsera would be a fun choice, but it would require a pre-1900 POD since she dies (committed Suicide? was murdered?)...
  8. subs instead of carriers

    I'm afraid that your question proceeds from a false premise, namely that any such decision or belief existed. It also implies that some sort of "super-sub" could have been constructed during the inter-war years. This is, again, not supported by the facts on record. Aircraft carriers were...
  9. No School

    Well that why we have discussions like this, to allow for differing views. It's likely that we will have the opprotunity to see if the home systems works on a macro level. It seems likely that it will be the way the future works. Hopefully we don't wind up with a generation of mal-adjusted...
  10. No School

    That's extremely unlikely. Most of the time, even in rural areas, High schools have at least two middle schools (or grade schools in the case of 7 - 12 schools) as "feeders". Please don't mis-read tribe as race or social group. I'm talking about the loose confederation of neighbors we tend...
  11. No School

    Beyond the collapse of most post 1850 technology due to an insufficient number of semi-skilled workers there is also the "socialization" issue. Schools are were people learn to deal with others who aren't the same "tribe". Even in cities, there is the "neighborhood", which is nothing more...
  12. Norsefire Nation

    The novel doesn't say. One would hope that they would be given a vaccine, but once you let something like that loose who knows?
  13. Norsefire Nation

    Made it!:)
  14. World War III Question

    As I noted in a different thread(https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=41740), number of weapons at that level is completely meaningless. You can destroy the United States as an economic and military power with 50 weapons, you can REALLY destroy the U.S. as a...
  15. Betamax world

    People would have been forced to watch higher quality video for a decade? Sony would be even richer?:eek: There might be a greater danger of multiple DVD formats competing at the comsumer level if the VHS/Betamax debacle hadn't happened.
  16. Could Operation Overlord have failed?

    Absolutlely, assuming you mean the landing itself. The Western Allies were going to get into France one way or another, but Overlord was a big IF. Easiet way for it to fail? Put british troops commanded by Montgomery onto Omaha.. The troops would have fought like loins but that Candy Ass of a...
  17. World War When?

    1st, you need to define world power. How does a state join the club? Is China a world power in 1650? 1750? 1850? How about Japan? Is the United States a world power in 1800? 1850? Does any African state qualify as a world power, even today? South America in 1750? 1850? 1950? I...
  18. Nimitz

    Actually the Japanese reactions to the mass firebombing illustrates the need for the Bomb. More people were killed in Toyko than in either A-Bomb attack, it was the obvious power of the weapon that made some of the IJA senior leadership waver just enough to give Hirohito and the Peace faction an...
  19. Nimitz

    No Nuke = No Surrender. This has been hashed out many times in the past. Any attempt to surrender without the prod of Hiroshima & Nagasaki WOULD have failed. Even with the nukes being used there was an almost successful coup attempt made to prevent the Emperor's speech from being broadcast...
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