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  1. America: The Country of Tomorrow, Never Today

    We have just lived through one American century, and we may yet live through another. American economic, political, cultural, and military dominance in the 20th century from WW1 onwards was scarcely challenged and ultimately never matched. How can an AH writer avert this period of American...

  2. AH Vignette: How Cigarettes Won The Cold War

    TOBACCO AND THE TORCH OF FREEDOM THERE are few Twentieth Century images more iconic than that of Malcolm Rifkind and Anthony Wedgwood-Benn smoking cigars beneath Big Ben in February 1991. Two men from opposite sides of the 53rd Parallel, ending a separation that had divided Britain for their...

  3. AH Challenge: Hermes flies

    Hermes was an ESA project to develop a re-usable crew transportation vehicle. Launched by an Ariane 5 rocket, the vessel would transport three European astronauts and 3000kg of cargo to orbit. The project was terminated in 1992, when the fall of the Soviet Union and the increased co-operation...

  4. True Blue Streak: a history of the Australian nuclear program

    Snapshots from another timeline... UK to withdraw from Commonwealth Nuclear Force LONDON, Nov 3, 1986 (AFP) - Recently elected Prime Minister Tony Benn has formally announced the unilateral withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Commonwealth Nuclear Force. As was promised before the...

  5. DBWI: Secret Australian nuclear program revealed!

    I always wondered why Australia never got anything out of our participation in the British nuclear program... this is still shocking beyond belief. It's in flagrant violation of our treaty commitments and is likely to totally destablize our relations with regional powers like Indonesia... I have...

  6. DBWI: Sharpton is bringing back the Stars and Stripes!

    The Secretary's just finished his speech - I was watching it on the BBC - and he finished with "and may god bless these united states." - and then they pulled down the Red Cross! And raised the Stars and Stripes over the bloody White House, and then they played the Star-Spangled Banner - the...

  7. Yeltsin killed in the August Putsch

    In the middle of the August 1991 coup, while Yeltsin was leading the resistance against the "State Emergency Committee" from the White House, a plan was forged by hardliners to have the KGB's special forces (the Alpha Group) storm the building and kill Yeltsin and the other Russian leaders...

  8. 9-11: Attack on the UN

    New York, Tuesday, September the 11th, 2001. Emergency services are streaming towards the Twin Towers as people flee for their lives. Thousands of people are already dead. Just when they thought it was over, a third plane thunders across the sky, seemingly out of control, and plummets into...

  9. What Happened Here? The Third World War: A Map Challenge

    It's 1951. The height of the Third World War. Trotsky's legions are marching across the Spanish Plain. Gandhi and Nehru lay dead at the hands of the Indian People's Army. Ireland is under the brutal occupation of British General Arthur Harris. And in the Caucus, Patton and Macarthur try to smash...

  10. The Manchurian Cardinal

    Pope John Paul II played a vital part in the downfall of communism - not to say that he was essential, but his constant pressure certainly aided Solidarity and other Eastern European anticommunist movements. But what if there had been no John Paul II? Better yet, what if he was replaced by a...

  11. AH Challenge: Atomic Battle Tanks

    With a POD no later than 1900, have a major world army field nuclear-powered land vehicles as part of their active military force.

  12. I'm Back In The USSR?: Yeltsin Impeached in 1993

    Yeltsin's presidency, and all that went with it, seemed posed on a precipe in '93, at loggerheads with the CPD in a battle that ended in bloodshed. Crisis of '93 Could the Congress of People's Deputies have gained the support of the military or the people and forced Yeltsin out of power...

  13. Nos Amis, Les Américains: France Stays In NATO

    It is sad when old friends fall apart and bicker over nothing; slowly loosing touch over the years. Such is the case with the Americans and the French... old pals who used to like to gang up on the Poms and give everyone a hard time, now they simply can't see eye-to-eye. Can we change this...

  14. AH Challenge: Jane Madden's Pro Football?

    For too long, the patriachical society has dominated the sporting world. Women's sports leagues are few and far between, and far less popular, less well-off and less televised than their male counterparts. It is your challenge, if you choose to accept it, to create a world with a POD no earlier...

  15. AH Challenge: The Empire State

    New York's affectation as the Empire State has always been of some amusement to me. So, make it happen. Give New York some overseas colonies with a POD after 1800 while still being a US state.

  16. A Map Challenge

    This is for a semicyberpunk setting I'm writing up. I have a few ideas about the history... but see what you can think up:

  17. AH Challenge: British China

    The British Empire in the 19th century was perhaps the greatest empire the world has ever seen. But could it have been greater? Could the British have done to China what they did to India? Could Victoria's titles have included Empress of China? Scoring: 1 point per 10% of modern China...

  18. Stalin-1: A Soviet victory scenario

    I'm writing up my world plan for my communist cyberpunk RPG in the GURPS AE format, and thought that some comments on my historical backround might be a good thing. I know it's pretty darned implausible, but the aim is not to create a plausible timeline, but a world that fits a final mold...

  19. AH Challenge: An Asian-American Preisdent?

    Many people have speculated on having a Hispanic, African-American or female President of the United States, but I have never seen a discussion about a potential Asian-American president. Perhaps it's because the potential field of candidates is so small: I randomly stumbled across the only...

  20. Much Later Soviet Moon-Landing

    What if the Soviets, deciding that late is better than never, possibly scrapping Mir and other similiar projects, succeeded in landing a cosmonaut on the moon in the early 1980s? What effect would the Soviet Moon Shot have on the Reagan Adminstration? Could it trigger a second space race? Or...
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