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  1. WI: Quebec Agreement persists

    The Quebec Agreement provided for Anglo-American collaboration in nuclear weapons development, with the British Tube Alloys programme merging with the American Manhattan Engineer District. The later Hyde Park aide-memoire agreed to continuing joint development of nuclear energy for 'military and...

  2. FORT VICTORIA sunk by the Provisional IRA in 1990

    In 1990, two bombs were planted by the Provisional IRA aboard the fleet replenishment oiler FORT VICTORIA, then under construction at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast. One bomb went off, flooding the ship's engine room, causing a list of 45 degrees and delaying the completion of the ship...

  3. WI: Iraq goes nuclear in 1986

    Assume, arguendo, that the Iranian revolution doesn't take place in 1979, leaving Iran's nuclear energy program (and the associated international support) in place. Partly as a consequence, Operation Opera is unsuccessful in destroying the Osirak facilities; without disruption to their nuclear...

  4. Six Eyes

    The United States, United Kingdom, and three of the four 'White Dominions' of the British Empire form the Five Eyes, an informal security bloc centered around the very much formal UKUSA agreement on signals intelligence. What would it take for South Africa to be a signatory to the UKUSA...

  5. WI: Italy Falls after Caporetto in 1917

    In OTL 1917, Italy was close to starvation, industry was close to collapse due to lack of coal, and the Army had no logistics stocks left. The Central Powers attack failed to take Venice or Mantua during the Battle of Caporetto, but it was still disastrous for Italy: with the Italian army lost...

  6. WI: RMS CARPATHIA sinks, too

    It is well recorded that the RMS CARPATHIA made all possible speed to reach the position of the TITANIC in time to pick up survivors, in spite of the prevailing ice. The ship's master, Arthur Rostron, went so far as to say afterwards that if he had known how much ice was present, he would have...

  7. WI: More English Cathedrals

    During the English Reformation, Henry VIII planned to create more cathedrals in England - mostly because the bishoprics of York and Lincoln were absolutely huge. Six of these (Bristol, Chester, Gloucester, Oxford, Peterborough and Westminster) actually were created, along with Southwell as a...

  8. WI: Anglo-Iranian Oil Company takes Mossadegh's Deal

    In 1951, Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh proposed a deal with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company to share profits 50/50 between the company and the Iranian government, in line with existing arrangements between oil companies and the governments of Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. The AIOC...

  9. WI: T-15 nuclear torpedo enters service

    Originally, the Project 627 (NOVEMBER class) submarine was supposed to have been built for the Soviet Navy with an armament of one enormous (1550mm) nuclear-armed torpedo - the T-15 - for attacking ports and naval bases. Just two 533mm torpedo tubes, without reloads, would have been carried for...

  10. WI PRINZ EUGEN's machinery holds up

    IOTL, after the PRINZ EUGEN broke away from the BISMARCK during their Atlantic sortie, the cruiser was found to have mechanical troubles which forced her to return to port. What if the machinery problems never materialised, and she was able to continue her raiding sortie?

  11. WI: Archduke Franz Ferdinand gets lucky

    Well, only a little bit lucky. Let's say that the bomb-thrower has better timing and the Archduke's car is blown up. He is seriously injured, losing a leg and seeming in danger of death for some time; his wife survives, whilst the other two occupants of the car are killed. How does this effect...

  12. AHC/WI: Saddam Fights

    In the 1990-1991 Gulf War, the Coalition expected heavy fighting and considerable casualties in the liberation of Kuwait. Instead, the Iraqi armed forces (sensibly) turned tail and ran. What would it take for them to stand and fight, and what would be the consequences.

  13. AHC: Cherie Blair as Labour Leader

    I was musing on Hillary Clinton's public perception in the United States, and got to thinking that the nearest British equivalent to her run for President would be if Cherie Blair became Leader of the Labour Party. So, that's your mission, with a PoD after 2 May 1997 - i.e., after Tony Blair...

  14. WI: Beatty goes to the Atlantic Fleet

    In OTL, the newly-promoted Rear-Admiral Beatty was offered the post of second-in-command of the Atlantic Fleet - under a certain Rear-Admiral Jellicoe - in 1910. He refused, preferring to wait on a post that was more convenient for his social and domestic lives in the Home Fleet. This refusal...

  15. WI: REVENGE class at Jutland

    The QUEEN ELIZABETH class were rather controversial in their day. Let's say the naysayers win and the RN instead gets four REVENGE class battleships and a repeat TIGER - let's say LEOPARD - in the 1912 programme, completing in late 1914/early 1915. In the 1913 programme, four more REVENGE class...

  16. AHC: Make the Ryanverse Happen

    Tom Clancy's Ryanverse might not have started out as alternate history, but between Denver getting nuked, Israel making peace with the Arabs, and Japan deciding that the odds against it in WW2 weren't bad enough, it sure finished up that way. With a plausible PoD no earlier than 1950 - the...

  17. WI: Rickover has a normal career

    IOTL, Hyman Rickover managed to get parallel positions as head of Naval Reactors and on the AEC, carving himself out an empire that ruled - for better and worse - USN submarine development and operations for thirty years. What if instead he is appointed elsewhere in 1952-1953, at the end of...

  18. AHC/WI: Operation ROBOT implemented

    For the uninitiated, Operation ROBOT was a 1952 proposal by the Treasury and Bank of England to restore convertibility for non-resident Sterling currency by allowing the exchange rate for the pound to float. The objective was to relieve pressure on the British balance of payments, but it was...

  19. WI: Northern Irish industry not supported

    IOTL, the British government made a number of sub-optimal procurement decisions in order to send work to Shorts Aircraft and Harland & Wolff in Belfast. The objective was to keep employment high in Northern Ireland, thereby reducing the possibility of civil unrest. What if this isn't done...

  20. WI: WW1 Assault Rifles

    What if one of the combatants in WW1 had developed a weapon meeting the definition of an assault rifle, and issued it on a large scale as a standard infantry rifle? There are plenty of candidates, but the obvious ones to me are the Russian Fedorov Avtomat, and the French fully-automatic...
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