Challenge: Alternate end to the Cold War

Henry Wallace not being dumped in favor of Harry Truman a Veep in 1944 is about all I can think of. Even this might not be enough. But President Henry Wallace is pretty dang scary, especially given the timeframe.

Outside of that, I don't have any idea outside of ASBs landing.
 
What can the USA collapse into? There would be no break up of the US. If anything, there could be an economic meltdown/collapse. Other than that, there is no way for a collapsed United States of America.
 
If somehow the major Middle-East oil fields were to be nuked rendering them unusable it might lead to an economic collapse of the US while at the same time providing a boon to the USSR when oil prices skyrocket.
 
The problem with the nuclear war PoD is that the only times that nuclear war was "winnable" by either side, the side that could win was the United States.
 
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