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  1. neopeius

    Would Japan surrender conditionally without an invasion or atomic bombs?

    Well, duh. There's a reason the first year is UC01... ;)
  2. neopeius

    President Reagan assassinated in 1981

    During my brother's standup days (1987-88), he used to have a routine: "Everyone here knows about the Zero Curse, right? Presidents elected in a year ending in zero die in office. Roosevelt, Kennedy, Lincoln... but not Reagan! Did he escape the curse? Or is it now merely transmissible? Has...
  3. neopeius

    A better Ottoman Navy for WW1

    Hey now—I love the Brandenburg class. They're the closest thing to dreadnoughts in the pre-dreadnought age! :)
  4. neopeius

    What if Spider-Man never existed?

    They might. I will say, having read most of the mags of the 60s, that Spider-Man was definitely the best of them. Plus, Spidey was sort of a Stan Lee alter ego. That said, no Spidey could mean...something else even bigger. Lots of people don't like spiders. Maybe Bear Girl or something.
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    1950s "Limited" Nuclear War

    But the Korean War was a hot war. And if we're talking a matter of weeks rather than months, I don't think we can turn on a dime like that. (also, a "few" and "a handful" are not going to make much difference compared to the 300 other bombers employed)
  6. neopeius

    1950s "Limited" Nuclear War

    Sorry I missed this. Would they have time to set this up effectively if the war is on the scale of weeks rather than the months Germany had to set up their system (which ultimately was a Pyrrhic and short-lived victory)?
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    1950s "Limited" Nuclear War

    Per Baugher's site: "The outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 led to a decision to adapt the B-45 to the tactical nuclear role as a deterrent against a Soviet attack against western Europe. However, the B-45 had not originally been designed with the delivery of atomic bombs in mind. Because of...
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    1950s "Limited" Nuclear War

    No doubt the Soviets won't make it to the US. B-45 won't have nukes until 1952, and they are susceptible to MiG-15. There also are fewer than a hundred of them.
  9. neopeius

    1950s "Limited" Nuclear War

    In rebuttal to my previous post... https://historum.com/t/b-36-in-soviet-airspace.91880/ If you go to the last post, testimony from the 1949 "B-36 hearings" paint a grim picture for The Peacemaker. On the other hand, while those gentlemen were confident that the Soviets would have night...
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    1950s "Limited" Nuclear War

    The 1950s are a TERRIBLE time for the Soviets to launch a first strike. 1954 would be an ideal time for the Americans to launch a first strike (if the goal was to destroy the Soviet Union and commit mass atrocity). Let's go with 1951 (same year as "The Hot War"). The B-47 is not yet deployed...
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    Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back

    I love this timeline, and it is one of the few I am subscribed to. Pedantic note: "wary" is the word you want. "Weary" means tired. It does not, and never will mean "cautious" :)
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    Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back

    I wonder, with far fewer pickings and the Med a far less vital theater, if Ellsberg goes to Iceland after all... (he was a brilliant salvage officer who worked miracles in hot Massawa in 1942...)
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    Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back

    Beautiful update, as always. Two questions: 1) How successful is this campaign vis. a vis. OTL (i.e. were there a thousand Italians guerrilla fighting in OTL?); and, 2) Since I just read Ellsberg's "Under the Red Sea Sun", do the Italians still scuttle a huge fleet at Massawa, or did the...
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    Glorious Dawn: The Two Paths of Spaceflight

    If Pioneer 0 (1 in this universe) makes it as far as Pioneer 1 did in OTL, then the third flight in November will probably be successful, beating the Soviet efforts. (I wrote the history on Pioneers 0-2: https://www.sdfo.org/stl/pioneer02.php)
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    España No Ha Muerto: If Franco brought Spain into the Second World War

    The best title for a spinoff timeline.
  16. neopeius

    If Japan remained a democracy and never joined the Axis, would manga/anime exist in its modern form?

    Right. I did a panel with Ada Palmer at Chicon, and she talked about how, after the war, Japan wouldn't talk about the war for decades. It affected their anime and manga. By the 70s, you had oblique discussion about it in science fiction, and by the 80s, you finally had things like Grave of the...
  17. neopeius

    Gemini 8 lost in LEO

    Except we did in the 70s. So, the issue is money and interest. 1964 was the high water mark for NASA expenditures. Between Vietnam and the Soviets sitting on their laurels after Voskhod 2, late 66 was kind if a nadir of enthusiasm. I'm not saying it would cancel, and maybe they'd launch the...
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    Gemini 8 lost in LEO

    If they're out of fuel, a space walk would not be possible nor useful. As for figuring out what happened, if they run out of fuel, it's because Armstrong figures out it's the maneuvering system that's the problem, and he runs out of OCS fuel trying to fix it. If Armstrong fails to take the...
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    Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back

    You might try reading it. It's good. :)
  20. neopeius

    Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back

    What will? :)
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