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Edifice: A History of the National Redoubt By JessAH The concept of the national redoubt was formulated long before the advent of nuclear weapons, but it has only become relevant since the widespread proliferation and escalating use of weapons of mass destruction. To understand the national...

The Red Sun Rising Wel...Wel...Welcome to 1987, a new year! It is a tumultuous and adventurous time for humanity as we look towards the stars with the new Ares program! President Larry McDonald has met with Nippon Foundation's President Ryōichi Sasakawa! Marking a landmark step in...

This may come across as naive, but when thinking of all the close calls in the Cold War, it was soldiers refusing to give the order that saved humanity. The reason they didn’t give orders was of course because they couldn’t say for sure that they were being attacked. But what if a nuclear...

I am fascinated by stories about nuclear warfare or WW3 that do not actually cause the apocalypse, or cause the a majority of the world to turn into Fallout, Wasteland, Atom RPG, or Mad Max, even despite nuclear strikes on massively populated cities, millions of deaths, and a total reset of...

Hello everyone, and welcome to a brand new adventure. While we wait for my next large scale project, Horizon, I began to wonder about a new project, and a new story - one that takes us not to space (Right away, at least), but the bottom of the ocean. Scorpion’s Tale is a story of Cold War...

Suppose for a moment that the UK decided to either spend the money to develop themselves – perhaps due to taking a more French national sovereignty position or not heading down the HTP path – or manage to negotiate with the Americans so that they were able to sell nuclear powered submarines to...

"1941 was not the worst, oh no. And 1945 was not the end. All we went through together was meaningless. Those desperate, brutal battles against the fascists in the long first summer of the war, the bitter cold outside Moscow and Stalingrad, and our heroic march to Berlin- none of it mattered...

Let's say this nuclear exchange occurs between 1966 and 1970, assuming the contingency operations of every major power goes as planned and civilization manages to rebuild, what would a post-nuclear world look like say 30 to 40 years after? How would this affect culture including music, cars, and...

Assuming the Israelis do not destroy the Iraqi Nuclear Program, and Saddam is able to test a nuclear bomb and then further develop nuclear weapons during the Iran-Iraq war, how would that change the timeline? Iran's reaction? Israel's reaction? Other Arab countries reactions? And finally, the...

Romania (as the Romanian People's Republic) started a nuclear research program in 1949, focusing on radioactive isotopes in medicine and industry. Some have interpreted Romania's actions to have a dual purpose, as the military program began in 1978, jointly operated with the program for the...

Read title. For the uninformed, Israel was doing really badly during the opening stages of the Yom Kippur War of 1973 (henceforth abbreviated to YKW). In the Sinai, the Bar-Lev line failed to hold back the Egyptian onslaught and the common availability of man-portable AT weapons buttfucked...

WW1 is avoided until Germamy develops nukes. Due lack of nazism experts don't leave Germany resulting in Germans being decades aheads of rest of the world in missile and nuclear tech. Germany surprise nuke major cities in UK,France,Russia with V2s forcing them to surrender unconditionally and...

After the Davis Besse reactor melted down in early 2003, it was discovered that a persistent leak of berated water from cracked control rods had gradually eaten away at the reactor head, resulting in the failure that damaged the other control rod drive mechanisms and inhibited the safe shutdown...

Yet another thread that has German and Nuclear together, which seems to be quite common on this site. However, this is a bit different than the usual (I hope) as there are some questions I have and not found anything about them on AH (yet). I will start with the most probable (I guess?) of...

If this belongs in asb I'll ask to move it but while this scenario is improbable I don't believe it's impossible. What would happen if Brezhnev approves dropping a single nuclear bomb on enemy combatants in his early rule? It'd have to be something like Prague having an outright revolution or a...

When reading Cold War history, I've always seen the two same things in the case of a Nuclear War. Although it varies nation to nation, here is the general plan I've seen 1. Whoever shoots first, strike back. 2. Evacuate important politicians (IE The President or Prime Minister) into underground...

I decided to start a new thread for this (rather than work this into the current thread re Soviet Bombers and Submarines in Cuba.) What if the US had finalized plans to attack approximately 88 "Designated Ground Zeros" (some of which apparently encompassed more than one target) in the USSR...

What is the smallest change you can make to events in August 1945 that will snowball into the infamous Operation Downfall? Preferably a POD after the Nagasaki bombing.

What is the earliest a nuclear weapon or reactor could have been developed? (POD No later than the industrial revolution)

With a PoD after 31st Dec, 1945, what could lead to two western capitalist "democratic" countries having a limited nuclear exchange? Leave the Second World and Third World out of it if possible. I was just curious to see what would have happened if, say, the US nukes the UK in 1956 or France had...