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    The Atomic Dud: Without the Bomb, would the U.S. have bombed-and-blockaded? Invaded Kyushu? Or would it have shifted OLYMPIC to Northern Honshu?

    A new article appeared in Foreign Policy today that plays with Hiroshima counterfactuals: "The Bomb Was Horrifying. The Alternatives Would Have Been Worse," by Evan Thomas. (It's paywalled, so I am providing another reliable link.) At first I thought this was in connection with the new...
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    80 Years On: Shattered Sword's Jonathan Parshall parses some Midway Counterfactuals

    This weekend is the 80th anniversary of Midway, so it's not at all surprising to see Jonathan Parshall drop in today for another lengthy pod/video cast with Drachinifel. But this one looked worth special mention here, because this time, unprompted, Parshall offers up some alternate history - or...
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    Anyone following the "Third World War 1987" alt-history site?

    Something I accidentally stumbled across several weeks ago - but it's been underway since 2017. So far as I can tell, no one has ever brought it up here. Link to home: Third World War 1987 It looks to be a wargammed (old school table!) effort to plot out a WW3 scenario in 1987. The premise is...
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    With Elizabeth Stuart as monarch, might the English Civil War have been avoided? [Spectator article]

    An interesting alt-timeline I had never considered, prompted by a review in the Spectator of Nadine Akkerman's new biography of Elizabeth Stuart, Elizabeth Stuart: Queen of Hearts (OUP, pp. 640, £20). Elizabeth, for refresher's sake, was the second-eldest child of James I, and his oldest...
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    American Chernobyl: The Grand Forks Nuclear Disaster of 1980

    I'm surprised that no searches in the archives appear to turn up any discussion of this pretty damned big What-If/Damned Nearly Was. So maybe it's time to talk it out. One of the few publicly available photos of the 1980 Grand Forks Incident (USAF) American Chernobyl: The Grand Forks Nuclear...
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    Gideon's Folly: What happens when the USS Monitor never shows up for the Battle of Hampton Roads?

    "Infernal Machine to starboard, Captain!" The sinking of USS Cumberland by the ironclad CSS Virginia, March 8, 1862 This week being the 159th anniversary of the Battle of Hampton Roads... Here's a Civil War what-if I'm a bit surprised I don't see discussed much at all. In fact, I'm having...
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    Japan Fights On After Nagasaki: Or, What Do You Do With Your Nukes?

    So many atomic bomb threads this week, so little time... Today of course is the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, the second (and so far, last) city to suffer destruction from nuclear attack. I think most people here appreciate that the United States was fully prepared to keep...
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    The Terror (AMC Series, 2018): An Alternate History of the Franklin Expedition?

    Digging through this sub-forum, I'm a little surprised that no one seems to have started a thread on last spring's AMC miniseries The Terror, a high budget Ridley Scott produced adaptation of the 2007 Simmons novel of the same name - both being imaginative (and slightly supernatural)...
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