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  1. Alternate History Challenge: Japan gets the atomic bomb

    If a weapon was developed, an attempt to deliver by air was impossible, unless we also allow the Japanese to make additional discoveries well beyond their ken. The early Bombs were BIG and HEAVY, the B-29 was the only aircraft that could handle them, and ever the B-San had to be stripped done to...
  2. Epicenter: New York City

    Some, in fact, many of these structures would likely survive, albeit will differing amounts of damage. Modern, well designed buildings will probably not even lose glass. You would lose some of the non-reinforced masonary buildings, likely with considrably loss of life, but nothing like the...
  3. Operation Keelhaul

    Stalin always looked at cost/benefit. The cost of an all-out war with the West would outweigh the benefit of getting his hands (or more correctly, sights) on these prisoners. This agreement is one of those that simply makes no when you look at them from 60 years on, knowing what we know. It...
  4. Epicenter: Mass. Bay

    If it uses electricity it's out of business except for generators & that assumes the generator & broadcast center survives, which is doubtful. Phone lines will be down, as will cell repeaters, as will electrical lines that crossed the fault line. Transmitters will likely have fallen over due to...
  5. Alternate History Challenge: Japan gets the atomic bomb

    I think you will find that they arrived a couple days apart in August of 1945.
  6. Epicenter: Mass. Bay

    New Orleans, as bad as it is/was is NOTHING compared to the posited event. You are talking 50K-100K dead x3 injuried, just in Boston CITY. I can't even imagine the toll for rest of area, from N.J. up to Canada. I'm not sure that SPORTS would continue. No insurance? Depression? All bets are off.
  7. Epicenter: Mass. Bay

    In addition to my previous post, it is important to remember that the damage footprint of this event will be at least 300 miles long, extending out 40 or more miles on either side at decreasing levels as you move outward. This assumes that no tsunami is generated. If one IS generated, all best...
  8. Epicenter: Mass. Bay

    Sports Teams????? It seems that the level of this is not really clear. This is a disaster of unprecedented scale anywhere in the world. Nothing you have ever seen or thought of will equal this, short of Hiroshima. You are talking about structural damage on the level of a Fuel Air weapon...
  9. Alternate History Challenge: Japan gets the atomic bomb

    Alien Space Bats arrive and provide the Japanese with everything that they need to create a program. This is necessary since anything that floats flying a Japanese flag is getting sunk by American Air and submarine forces.
  10. A Low Probability WI: Christian Toleration

    Much of the Conversion or the Sword activity is/was directly related to economics. If the Chuch controlled your life, and the Church & State were partners, the State was going to have a far easier time stealing the locals blind.
  11. Age of Female Consent Stays At 12

    12 is a strange age, but most of the old sex laws are bit odd, especially considering that women didn't reach puberty until 16-17 back in the days that many of these laws were passed. It may have had something to do with arranged marriages or the like. As far as the CRIME of pedophilia, it...
  12. Kim Philby lives until the mid '90s

    Probably not. Which is too bad. Traitors should have to spend their lives looking over their shoulders.
  13. An Introduction to Planetary Defense

    We already did it at least once, maybe twice. Top predator isn't just a term, it's a description.
  14. Massive Humanitarian Aid in lieu of Iraq

    Congress has to APPROVE money like that. Won't happen. If they could they wouldn't support the war these days, perfering to spend money on domestic items that will help them get re-elected, but failing to "support the troops" while we are engaged is flat out political sucide. Ignoring Africa is...
  15. Epicenter: Mass. Bay

    A quake of that size (9.4) would require the rupture of an area at least 300 miles long, with an off-set of 40 feet or, likely, greater. I will not use the word impossible, but I will say damned unlikely. If the area had quakes of that level in the past, it would be in the geologic record & in...
  16. Perry didn't go to Japan with nice intention

    You could every soldier, marine, and seaman, aboard every vessel the United States possessed, and the American force would still get it's ass kicked. Logistics decide modern war. Not weapons. Not training. Not morale. Logistics. The others are all important, vital even, but logistics decides...
  17. An Introduction to Planetary Defense

    There were at least two other intelligent Homo spicies on Earth until quite recently. Homo Neaderthalensis & Homo floresiensis/Homo Erectus shared the Earth with Homo Sapiens (i.e. Us) until about 10-20,000 years BCE. It is likely that, except for direct competition from Us, the planet could...
  18. Perry didn't go to Japan with nice intention

    At the end of a 5,000 mile suppy line? I am as big a fan of the U.S. military as you will find, but FOUR warships (and smallish ones at that) defeat a nation of nearly 100 million? This isn't the New World in 1500, where the conquistadors had smallpox & the measles as primary weapons to clear...
  19. Nazi Germany's War Crimes Trial

    The Nazi's would have tried only those who could advance their agenda. Slavs, jews & others who were clearly non-Aryan. Trying Aryans would mess up the whole party line. British prisoners would rarely be tried. Killed yes, tried no. The Reich believed that England was destined to be a junior...
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