1962

For this discussion, let us assume the India comes out of WW2 unpartitioned, as that is the easiest way to get India to be more powerful than OTL. Could be Jinnah stays in England, or dies somehow, or Gandhi tries to accommodate Muslims in the INC more; or even just having the British consult...

My impression is that the consensus on this website is that in a scenario where the Cuban Missile Crisis had led to a full-blown nuclear conflict, the Eastern Bloc would have been knocked back to the Stone Ages and Western Europe would have been left little better, but that the America would...

After he lost the Presidency in 1960 and the California Governorship in 1962, most assumed that Richard Nixon's political career was over. But in 1968 he was renominated by the GOP and he defeated Vice-President Hubert Humphrey in November. After two ignominious defeats, it's hard to see why...

After losing the 1960 Presidential election, Nixon made a political comeback upon his close election as Governor of California in 1962. Nixon won the state by only .7%, and he very easily could have lost. What if Brown had defeated Nixon? Would Nixon still be able to run for President again? Or...

After he lost to Governor Pat Brown in 1962, Nixon gave a paranoid, spiteful, self-pitying speech to the press proclaiming they wouldn't have Nixon to "kick around anymore" and he retired from politics. That is, until JFK's assassination got the political wheels turning once again in Nixon's...

Let’s say that the Cuban Missile Crisis breaks out, and WW3 happens in 1962. Which American cities are the most likely to not be nuked, and which ones will definitely be nuked? Also will america be able to rebuild?

Envision the following, terribly dystopian scenario: In 1961 or 1962, the United States and NATO launch a nuclear first strike against the Soviet Union. This could be part of an ATL Cuban Missile Crisis where Operation Northwoods happened, or a larger Bay of Pigs, or it could just be an...