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  1. Manhattan Project fails--Meltdown in Chicago

    A Chicago tennis court meltdown was discussed before https://www.alternatehistory.com/discus/messages/4/5305.html

  2. 1972: Much bigger Derry massacre

    In January 1972, British Red Berets blew away 20 Catholic Hooligans and Colleens in Derry, N.Ireland, with many ramifications. WI the Paras had really lost it and gone medieval and shot dead 200, with liberal use of FN SLR bayonet-work on the wounded? UN sanctions and troops? Brits pull out in...

  3. 1945: No UK Welfare State

    In 1945 the UK Labour government's Attlee & Bevan implemented something new in world history:the first welfare state in the world (originally a Conservative plan), that promised to give NHS health care, state housing, schooling, dole and pension: caring for society's members from cradle to...

  4. 1981: A Jewish Pope

    Much of western law is of Judaic origin. In the UK, the British courts have deferred to the London Beth Din (London Jewish Law Court) when defining if the offspring of a mixed couple is Jewish or not. In Israel, although the Law of Return gives even a gentile who has just one paternal...

  5. A Night Time 911 WTC Hit

    Half way down the list at this link is an interesting video clip from the suspiciously cancelled after only 13 episodes "Lone Gunman" series presaging a conspiratorial radio controlled takeover of a 727 flying into the WTC at night, made six months before 911 http://www.freedomfiles.org/movies

  6. No Heroes of Telemark: London nuked 1945

    The sabotage of the German Heavy Water plant in Telemark, Norway, set whatever German A bomb ambition there was right back. WI the sabotage had failed, & the Germans really had been able to make 3 bombs and nuked London in early 1945. Threatening to use more on the UK, would Churchill (if he had...

  7. Bismarck sinks Hood, POW & Rodney

    Rodney cannot afford to run, because with no rear X or Y turrets, and being 7 knots slower, she is doomed in a stern chase. No doubt the crew know this, so they would be compelled to slog it out or close, where she would be in with a chance, as the inferiority of the British optics and...

  8. Bismarck sinks Hood, POW & Rodney

    1. If Bismarck had not been damaged or not brought to battle, how much damage could she have done to the convoys? Were there any convoys at sea at the time? How far west would she have dared to sail? 2. If Prinz Eugen had stayed with Bismarck, would her extra flak have been enough to beat off...

  9. Bismarck sinks Hood, POW & Rodney

    Bismarck as not so good, but she excelled in initial accuracy and rate of fire. The initial shots can be the most telling. The first German salvoes were very accurate against Hood. Accuracy & ROF will of course quickly fall off, which is why the initial punches can be decisive. Note 2 here...

  10. Bismarck sinks Hood, POW & Rodney

    The ROF of Bismarck's guns was 3 per minute vs Rodney's 1. 24 rounds in the air vs 9, means the odds are with the Nazi.

  11. Bismarck sinks Hood, POW & Rodney

    Speed is as important as armour, and with Bismarck being a whole 7 knots faster, with engines producing 138,000 shp over Rodney's 45,000 shp, the Brit will soon be overtaken and overwhelmed, unless she gets a lucky long range hit. Despite Yamato having heavier guns & armour than an Iowa...

  12. Bismarck sinks Hood, POW & Rodney

    The trouble with three close together turrets is that one well placed shell could take out the Rodney's entire main suite. With all its secondary armament at the rear, Rodney would be disadvantaged in a stern chase. Bismarck's 38cms had the fastest ROF of any large naval gun and one on one...

  13. Bismarck sinks Hood, POW & Rodney

    Hood had a "glass jaw" which doomed her. Bismarck was a whole 7 knots faster than Rodney and had better fire control, accuracy and rate of fire. Due to hull stress from its unique lay out, Rodney could not fire broadsides. Its 16" guns, although slightly more powerful than Bismarck's, were not...

  14. Bismarck sinks Hood, POW & Rodney

    If the Bismarck had surrendered, Hitler could have been so scandalised that he would have ordered his Furehrdirektiv 53 in July 1941 instead of December 1943 as in OTL, ordering the scrapping of all surface ships and their conversion of the Kriegsmarine into a U boat force only. The result:100...

  15. Bismarck sinks Hood, POW & Rodney

    WI Lutjens seeing that his case is hopeless actually surrendered?! What would be the effect on German morale at having Bismarck escorted by the RN into Portsmouth? Could it actually break Nazi morale? Would the Allies have put her to subsequent war use eg on convoy escort duty out of Scapa Flow...

  16. WI Clinton Runs in 1988?

    Even at 58, Clinton's libido is still sky high. In 1988 he was 42: his testosterone levels must've been bursting. Would he not have been even less mature and more profligate than in OTL, & with the senate & public opinion being much less forgiving, with him being uncontrollably rampant with...

  17. Bismarck sinks Hood, POW & Rodney

    In OTL Bismarck sank only Hood. But she badly damaged Prince of Wales and if she had pursued, could have deep sixed her as well. In addition even when surrounded, she straddled Rodney & could have sunk her as well. WI in addition to sinking three RN capital ships, Bismarck had made good her...

  18. Hitler vs the Falashas: humanity culled

    Hitler had plans to exterminate 10 million non-Aryans annually from 1946 had he won the war. Would this have included the Negroidal nations? In WW1 the Germans recruited Askaris as excellent troops. Presumably the first on the list would have been the Black Ethiopian Jewish Falashas of Ethiopia...

  19. Coresh survives Waco conflagration

    WI Coresh and a few others had survived Waco. Would he have gone to jail? Would he have been a hero or a villain? Would McVeigh have still let off the OKC bomb? Would his devotees have tried to spring him?

  20. 1960s world tobacco ban

    Tobacco is responsible for millions of deaths & huge medical costs & suffering per year worldwide. Yet it is the only certifiably dangerous substance legally & freely available to all. WI with its dangers being proven in the 60s, it had been banned then as being illegal, akin to marijuana?
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