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Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to switch the Cold War and the World Wars. That is- Turn the period from 1914 and 1991 around, so that there is a period of great geopolitical tension marked by alternating periods of brinkmanship and detente from 1914 to 1960, at which point a six year long war takes place from 1960 to 1966, followed by an interwar period, and closing with a four year long war from 1987 to 1991. How does one achieve this? Perhaps the League of Three Emperors stays in place but a less reckless Kaiser and Czar guide their alliance into a detente with the western powers? What effect does this have on technological development. It's often said that World War II led to 20 years worth of technological development in 6 years. Do airplanes, the computer, the atom bomb, etc develop on a slower timetable? What effect does this have on the developing world? Do European nations hang on to their colonies longer? Is this alt-cold war possible without the atom bomb and the doctrine of mutually assured destruction (whether or not it's true, American and Soviet leaders thought it was true).

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