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  1. WI: Ronald Reagan Puts Anthrax in US Illegal Drug Supply

    Putting aside the why (I'm going to assume Reagan's dementia hits him like a truck or something) So according to this New York Time's article on the Nation Institute on Drug Abuse's Household Survey, approximately 37 million Americans used 1 or more illicit substances in 1986. 5.8 million used...
  2. What if NAZI Germany didn’t build battleships?

    my speculation has always been for (somewhat enlarged) Admiral Hipper-class with 2x3 forward facing 11" gun array during the period they were developing more powerful diesels, thus falling between the "pocket battleships" and the later H-class (have been told this would be a very provocative...
  3. AU Fiction: CFL-USA - A different telling.
    Threadmarks: Chapter 67: In Other Sports Report- 2009

    In Other Sports Report: 2009 NHL: The National Hockey League, despite being the oldest league, was losing ground to the revived World Hockey Association. Not helped that during the 08-09 season, the Carolina Hurricanes were sold to a new ownership group, True North Sports & Entertainment...
  4. ramones1986

    Dutch retain Taiwan

    It would be a bonus if the colonizers, missionaries included, were actually descendants of exiled Protestants from Spain and Portugal.
  5. WI: Ronald Reagan Puts Anthrax in US Illegal Drug Supply

    I remember reading that a few years ago; another incident of poisoning (along with the poisoning of alcohol during Prohibition). I can't remember if actively poisoning drugs entering the US was an idea that was actually brought up with Reagan or not, and I can't remember where I might have read it.
  6. What if NAZI Germany didn’t build battleships?

    Good information. As both cruisers, and destroyers got bigger construction time would go up. However wartime construction is faster then in peacetime, when labor rules, and stretching out contracts are common. Construction methods also improved between 1924-1945. Building ships in sections, and...
  7. WI: Kennedy choses Al Gore Sr. as his running mate instead of LBJ?

    Without LBJ on the ticket, Kennedy would probably lose. LBJ's reputation in 60 was more conservative than it was in 66, and it was the presence of Johnson, and the institutional wisdom and moderation that he represented (as a counter to JFK's youth) that made the composition of the ticket so...
  8. Do you agree with this assessment of pre-gunpowder armies?

    The same result as a early medieval middling army against a Roman Republic army, it would crush them. The impressive thing about the Roman Republic wasn’t its individual legions, plenty of Roman armies were defeated it was Rome’s ability to raise new armies. Of course the Roman Republics armies...
  9. at U.S. Constitutional Convention in 1787, northern states engage in brinksmanship and get deal on phase out of slavery by southern states

    An arbitrary and meaningless standard as the European states all profited from the trade.
  10. WI Israelites settle in North Africa?

    We do have prove of caanaite tribes moving to egypt in the second intermediate period so much so that a caanaite ( ish) people took power in 1650 bc and comtroled it till 1540 bc
  11. AHC: State-owned enterprises more widely accepted in USA

    I see that Ha-Joon Chang is a South Korean economist. And, as one of the Asian Tigers — Yes, I think South Korea has gotten a lot of things right. If I had to put a number on it, I’d say 70% capitalism and 30% socialism. But it’s also getting the incentives right for large businesses...
  12. Claymore

    Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 3

    I entirely understand where you are coming from and can truly sympathise with your dilemma. Many companies are now producing kits that are so complex (Bronco and Takom to name but two) that they almost put you off - and, of course, they charge an arm and a leg for the privilege of testing your...
  13. AHC: Save a notorious flop

    What about Batman and Robin? Perhaps Tim Burton gets to finish his trilogy instead?
  14. WI: Ronald Reagan Puts Anthrax in US Illegal Drug Supply

    Yeah you're randomly planting a highly infectious and enduring bio weapon in every American city. It'd kill far more then just the users. Eventually it would spread on its own between those who'd never so much as looked at a drug. We're looking at the single most horrific and destructive...
  15. Q-Bam Historical Map Thread

    I thought the Kaabu Empire was the state abutting Portuguese Guinea?
  16. thezerech

    Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg

    Belarus never got a German Monarch, officially, but the BNR wasn't the strongest government, and Germany liked to place German monarchs on the thrones of their sphere states, like Lithuania and Finland. Poland and Ukraine also were distinct possibilities for Habsburg monarchies. I think it...
  17. The Eternal Empire: Emperor Maurice dies before being overthrown

    So something similar to Chuvash?
  18. Proposals and War Aims That Didn't Happen Map Thread

    Wanting it does not mean that the Danes were guaranteed to keep it.
  19. Jesus is excommunicated and exiled rather than executed

    Actually this really would apply more to matthew than mark , mark was written for a gentile converts not jews as seen Mark has explanations of Jewish customs and translations of Aramaic expressions unlike matthew who states him because his audience would already know them. I didn't think...
  20. WI Saddam Hussein uses chemical weapons against coalition forces during the Gulf War?

    Which at the risk of a bit of thread drift makes me wonder , given everything that's been said about the coalition fears of Israeli intervention. How likely do you fine folks think it was that the coalition would split if Israel intervened? Either conventionally or with nuclear weapons, am...
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