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  1. Post 1945 German Aircraft Carriers/Amphibs?

    Nearly all discussion of German aircraft carriers on this board seems to about the Kreigsmarine. Is there any possibility that the post war West German Navy could have had a carrier arm or amphibious landing ships? Most likely something like the Dutch Navy had with the Karel Doorman with a focus...

  2. Prime Minister John Profumo

    The Profumo Affair is one of the biggest WI's in British politics but nearly all discussion about seems to focus on the wider political ramifications and from what I've found searching this forum there's little discussion about what could have happened to the man himself who was tipped for...

  3. DBWI Has anyone ever heard of "Doctor Who"

    I've been doing some Googling recently and I found some interesting stuff about Doctor Who, a pilot for a proposed BBC series about a time traveller. The pilot was shown exactly 50 years ago today but received poor ratings and wasn't commissioned. Those who were involved with its production...

  4. WI Richard Pryor stars in Blazing Saddles

    I'm just watching the film on TV right now, originally Mel Brooks wanted Pryor to play Bart but Warner Bros said no because of concerns over his drug use. But what if Brooks had stuck to his guns (no pun intended ;) ) and Pryor got the part. As good as Cleavon Little was how differently could...

  5. UK Labour never adopts Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament

    This is something I've meant to ask for a while but have never gotten round to it. I saw a BBCi article a while ago about how in contrast to the emotional battles that wracked Labour up until Blair, the French Left has always been solidly in favour of France's nuclear deterrent with only minor...

  6. DBWI 50th Anniversary of Britain joining the EEC

    Firstly Happy New Year to all AH.com'ers! ;) I'm sure you're all aware that this is a significant anniversary for modern Britain, in the morning there will be a whole series of events around the Headquarters of the European Central Bank in London celebrating the 50th anniversary of our joining...

  7. AHC FDR/Truman in 1940

    There's numerous threads about what if Wallace had remained VP after the 1944 election and subsequently succeeded FDR. So is there anyway that the then first term Senator from Missouri have got on the 1940 ticket ahead of Wallace? What changes could this have meant to aFdr's third term and...

  8. WI Churchill never joins the Liberals

    Suppose that Churchill doesn't fall out with the Tories causing him to cross the floor in 1904 and he remains a Tory for life. How would his political career develop? Could he become Leader of the Opposition and then PM in an interwar government and how would the Liberal Government progress...

  9. WI: The Gemini 8 Disaster

    Gemini 8 was the first docking of two spacecraft in orbit, unfortunately a faulty thruster caused both the capsule and the Agena target vehicle to enter a severe roll forcing them to undock. The crew of Neil Armstong and Dave Scott were at risk of passing out from the g-forces created by the...

  10. AHC: Alec Salmond, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

    Scottish First Minister and SNP Leader Alec Salmond is probably the beat politician in Britain today, so with any POD you may choose, can you put him in 10 Downing Street as the leader of a Unionist Party? Triple points if you can make him a Tory ;)

  11. Consequences of no use of nukes in combat?

    Lets say Japan decides to surrender in July or early August 1945 so that the use of the atomic bomb becomes unnecessary. How would nuclear weapons be viewed without the experience of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the thousands killed or badly affected by radiation, would it make the subsequent use...

  12. No President Bill Clinton, does Hillary still make it to Congress?

    Lets say that for whatever reason Bill Clinton never becomes POTUS, either he doesn't run or he gets defeated. I assume that Hillary will still try for a political career of her own so what course would that take? Could she make it to Congress earlier or later than IOTL? Would she go for a House...

  13. Anti-Party Group deposes Khrushchev: Effects on Soviet Space Programme?

    I've been looking back at old threads as to the consequences of Molotov and Co managing to topple Krushchev in 1957. Something I haven't seen discussed in detail and something I'm very interested in is what would have happened to the Soviet Space Programme. IIRC Khrushchev was initially...

  14. Challenge: Zhou Enlai joins the GMD

    As it says how could Zhou have decided to join the Nationalists instead of the Communists, bonus points if you can get him to defect from the CPC in the 1920's. ;)

  15. DBWI: Sadat Assasinated?

    Just read something this morning that 30 years ago today a group of Islamic radicals in the Egyptian Army attempted to assassinate President Sadat at a military parade in Cairo. Suppose they succeeded? How would the Middle East have turned out?

  16. Britain quits Suez before 1950

    The Suez thread is a staple on this forum and it usually asks what if the Tripartite Powers had pressed on regardless of what Eisenhower thought. However I can remember reading somewhere before, I can't remember where and haven't been able to find it, that the Atlee Government gave serious...

  17. WI Mugabe and Nkomo killed during the Rhodesian War

    I came across this on BBC's website the other day, on Good Friday 1979, the Rhodesian SAS staged Operation Bastille an attempt to kill Joshua Nkomo in retaliation for his ZAPU forces shooting down two Air Rhodesia airliners and in one case executing the survivors. While they knew where Nkomo was...

  18. DBWI: Nixon chooses to build the Space Shuttle

    Just as it says on the tin, what if in deciding NASA's post Apollo future Nixon chose to pursue the option of a new reusable spacecraft to service a proposed permanent space station. From the concepts I've seen of the proposed Space Shuttle it looked really cool but I've read that there were...

  19. WI Tories oppose Iraq War?

    This idea came to me the other day as to what would have been the implications if the Tories had failed to support Blair over Iraq. Some Tory MP's did vote against the Commons motion supporting the War and IIRC 2 of their junior frontbenchers resigned so they could vote against it. Obviously...

  20. DBWI: Did "Barbarossa" ever have a chance of success?

    Comrades! Soon we mark the 70th Anniversary of the foolhardy attempt by the Nazi cannibal regime to violate the Glorious Soviet Motherland! The complete failure of "Operation Barbarossa" is regarded as the greatest military disaster of the 20th Century. To think that they could have thought that...
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