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  1. WI: A more competitive US aerospace industry in the early 21st Century?

    So, lately I have been thinking about the potential for a timeline following a different path for the US aerospace where ULA isn't formed in 2005 and thought I'd see what folk thought about my ideas. Some background: in OTL, after Boeing was caught committing corporate espionage to win the...

  2. WI the Japanese focus on developing their shipping between the world wars?

    Something that often comes up when discussing Japan's potential and options during WW2 is their enormous shortfall of Japanese flagged shipping, which was hurting them even before they expanded their war to the Western powers. So what happens if instead of building the big Yamato class...

  3. Johnson or Humphrey win in 1968, what happens to NASA?

    So, as I understand it, the 1968 was a pretty close election. If Johnson had handled Vietnam better, it seems to me that he could have won it. And even if he hadn't, had he let Humphrey be his own man, it seems to me that the VP could have gotten the votes to secure the presidency. So what...

  4. What happens to the Bolshevik revolution without Iron Felix?

    So, Felix Dzerzhinsky, famous as the founder of the KGB, was not initially planning on staying in Russia. After he was freed from prison in the aftermath of the February Revolution, he went to Moscow with the plan of organizing some fellow Poles and to go help the revolution then going on in...

  5. Effect on Muscovy if the Ottoman Empire controls the lower Volga?

    So in the mid 16th Century, the Ottomans considered building a canal between the Volga and the Don rivers. In OTL, their expedition to the region didn't go so well, their forces were stalemated by the newly minted Russian empire and this would eventually be shown to be a strategic victory for...

  6. Warsaw Uprising happens a week earlier?

    So I was reading this article, and this section got me thinking: So let's assume that the uprising can somehow be organized a week sooner than it was in otl, kicking off in the last week of July, with Bagration still chugging along at full speed and the Germans frantically pulling back. Now...

  7. CPs win WW1 due to no US entry, what happens to the US financial system?

    So there were a couple interesting posts over in this thread: So let's assume that things go as per OTL up to the point where the US decided to enter, and in TTL, the US stays out. Let's say there's no Zimmerman Telegram and that this is enough to make Wilson do his utmost to keep his...

  8. How to boost Soviet electronics output?

    So, every so often we get a thread about OGAS (the "National Automated System for Computation and Information Processing") and computerizing the Soviet economy. Problem is, even if Viktor Glushkov had received money to continue working on his ideas, the Soviets struggled to meet existing needs...

  9. WI: An earlier discovery of nitrocellulose?

    So, cotton has been farmed in the middle east since at least Achaemenid times. The great physician Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (lived between 854 and 925 AD) discovered nitric acid and sulphuric acid (though I don't know what methods he used to produce either). The combination of these...

  10. Effects of More Soviet Influence in the Middle East?

    One of the great victories of the US in the Cold War was their out-manoeuvring of both the British and Soviets for position of pre-eminent power in the Middle East. Combined with American economic and banking power, good diplomacy helped ensure that the US had (and still has) a privileged...

  11. Russian Constantinople after winning WW1

    So, if Tsarist Russia had survived WW1, they were to get Constantinople and the straits. Considering the Tsars claimed to be the 3rd Rome, I'm wondering how likely people think it is that they'd move the capital to Constantinople? Considering the importance of the Black Sea and the rivers...

  12. Implications of a later Korean War?

    In OTL, the US in the late 40s was rapidly disarming and moving to a nuclear-focused vision for her military. When the Korean war broke out in June of 1950, the US lacked enough ships to blockade the Korean coast and the army had to salvage tanks from WW2 battlefields and museums to equip their...

  13. AHC: A better post-Shuttle rocket program

    Since the early years of this century, NASA has been struggling to turn Shuttle-derived hardware into a heavy lift vehicle. It hasn't gone well. Underfunding, politically imposed design decisions and a lack of a clear purpose has resulted in a slow-motion disaster which looks bound to deliver...

  14. Black Sea-oriented Poland

    So, until 1466, Poland didn't have an outlet into the Baltic, that area being occupied by the Teutonic knights. But until 1478, they had the vassalage of Moldova. What if, rather than reclaiming their Baltic coast, Poland had integrated Moldova the way it integrated Mazovia and Lithuania...

  15. WI The Bulgarian Communists support Stamboliyski?

    Aleksandar Stamboliyski is one of the more interesting political figures of the 20th Century - he was an agrarian leftist who wasn't a Marxist-Leninist (indeed, at the time he was active Marxist-Leninism was still very much focused on urban workers). In the aftermath of WW1, he served as Prime...

  16. WI: Tukhachevsky launched a coup against Stalin in 1937?

    From what we know from the Soviet archives so far, it seems that in 1937 the Bolsheviks (not only Stalin, but most everyone else who was writing memos about this as well) were pretty convinced that they really had only barely nipped a military coup in the bud when they started the purges of the...

  17. What does a longer lived British African Empire look like?

    So let's assume that Britain performs very well in the alt-WW2 and Germany is crushed by the Anglo-French alliance relatively quickly (maybe they go to war over Czechoslovakia), meaning Britain retains a much higher level of prestige on the world stage and the US and USSR don't rise as quickly...

  18. A more up-front Versailles - would it be better for Germany?

    I am currently reading André Tardieu's "The Truth About the Treaty", which has some interesting nuggets in it as to how the Entente were actually thinking during the process of negotiating the Versailles treaty. While there was general agreement as to the general shape of the treaty (such as...

  19. WI: Mirza Kuchak Khan takes Tehran

    Mirza Kuchak Khan was an Iranian constitutionalist revolutionary whose efforts to overthrow the rotting feudalism of late Qajar Iran would lead to his throwing in his lot with the Bolsheviks and renaming his group the "Persian Socialist Soviet Republic", more often known as the "Gilan Soviet"...

  20. Emigration from a continuing Tsarist Russia

    So let's assume that Tsarist Russia doesn't collapse during WW1 and instead manages to hang on just long enough that the Germans implode first, manages to ride out the social turmoil caused by the war (with Poland and Finland becoming autonomous subjects of the Tsar and considerable political...
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