nukes

How many nuclear weapons would they have? Let's say the program started in 1955. I imagine most of them would be deployed in a submarine fleet, with a purely defensive doctrine, and also Japan would probably have to have a missile interception grid to make Israel's Iron Dome look a bunch of...

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...

At the eve of the Second World War in 1945, the Soviet Union detonated its first ever nuclear weapons, the Malchik and the Tolstyak, on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively. This resulted in the unconditional surrender of Japan and marked the official ending of the war. But...

Not too long after the Suez Crisis, the United States actually had suggested digging a canal across the Negev Desert in Israel as an alternative to the Suez Canal. ...Using over 500 nuclear bombs. Yes, this was actually real. According to the memo, this was because of the exponential cost of...

Hey guys, it's my first post here. So right now, i'm writing an alternate history novel based on a timeline where WW3 happens, but only with a limited nuclear exchange (which sounds unlikely, but that's not really the point of this question). What i want to ask is, do you guys think that...

Inspired by this So how would the world react if there the United States had not stopped the planes in time how would the world react to this especially since this is in living memory of the Holocaust how strained would relations be between America and Israel would Israel they retaliate with...

By 1945 the second great war was coming to it's end, with every single member of the internationale, be in America like Mexico, the Argentinian Commune, Colombia, Centroamerica or Chile, be in europe like North italy, France and Norway, be the Commune in Bengal in asia, having already...

Well I was thinking about different German centered TLs and the cliche stuff always focuses on Germany being able to fullfill its imperial ambitions, either in WW1 or WW2. (Don't get me wrong, there are some very well done TLs and some stuff that doesn't fall into this category.) In this...

The idea of a lasting peacefull coexistence on the korean peninsula has been speculated over for some time now. With a POD post 2000, how to make a permanent Korean detenté actually work?

I would like to present some of my thoughts for a no-WW2 TL. I think it is hard imagining the 40s and 50s without a major war, so some input and critique for my thoughts is very welcome. scenario: Germany in 1932/33 is taken over by a Reichswehr Junta. Instead of the insane rearmament of OTL...

In the mid-late 1990s and early 2000s both Koreas were in a period of tension, which had led to South Korea, which had been holding elections which were won by hardliners, starting to develop a nuclear program with the full approval of the US. In 2006, North Korea tested their first nuke, and in...

In 1961 a B-52 Stratosfortress crashed in Raleigh, North Carolina. The plane was carrying a nuclear bomb, which went off, killing 70,000 people, including Mayor William Enloe and Governor Terry Sanford. The disaster traumatized America and left North Carolina in a state of anarchy for some time...

In 1987, Col. Chang Hsien-yi, an American spy in Taiwan, gave evidence to the CIA revealing that Taiwan was only a couple of years away from developing a nuclear device. America told Taiwan to end their secret weapons program and the country complied, preventing the PRC from finding out and...

Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria and North Korea have three things in common: Anti-Americanism, having nukes and being placed on the state sponsor of terrorism list. It really is terrible that they have them, but how would the world be different had they not gained nuclear weapons?

As the tin says. What PODs in research, development, or even political changes can set back the development of nukes as late as possible?

I remember watching an old video of Vladimir Zhirinovsky saying that when 9/11 happened he told Putin to side with the Middle East. My idea is that Zhirinovsky becomes president of Russia at some time after 1996, and sometime before September of 2001 Bin Laden decides to go to Russia. 9/11 still...

Suppose the Allies decide not to drop the Bomb on Hiroshima or Nagasaki. In fact let's say they decide to not drop the bomb on Japan, at all. Was there any alternative way to defeat Japan? That is apart from an invasion? The Americans had a tight blockade around the Japanese home islands and...

As the title would indicate, your challenge is to create a world where biological weapons are regarded as being just as bad, or even worse, than nuclear ones. The most obvious ways I see to do this would be to have worse, or more, bioweapons used in warfare and/or not having nukes actually used...

In this scenario I am proposing, Nazi Germany has defeated the Soviet Union, and has little to worry until US nukes come in in late 1945. Now considering that Hitler had a greater access to natural resources and would not be beat down as hard as Imperial Japan, it would take well over two nukes...

What if all allied landings failed and the Soviets took over Europe. Also they took mainland Japan and all of Korea. How would the Cold War change? What situation would Ireland/U.K. Be in? How would America be changed with Greenland and most of the pacific in Soviet hands? What about the...