What if Bela Lugosi became friends and collaborators with Orson Welles instead of Ed Wood?
Ditto Lon Chaney Junior
Ditto Lon Chaney Junior
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I don't know where that idea might go, but it could easily have been pretty cool.
One minor, but pivotal role Lugosi could have played alongside Welles was as "Mason" in Jane Eyre (1943)
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What if Critchley Parker survived his hike in 1942 and successfully established a Jewish state in the South-West of Tasmania? (yes this was an actual proposal, with well reasoned out plans for how the state would be economically viable, however when exploring the area on a hike, he got TB, died and was buried to the side of the bush track) Imagine that for some reason or another, Palestine no longer becomes a viable option for a Jewish state, maybe due to the Arabs being supported strongly by the Soviets. What would this state be like today, if it survived that long?
The Germans had some very good scientists but were lousy at pooling resources. Likely you would have had three to ten different teams sponsored by four or five different organizations all working unaware the others exist.
The Soviets were still rebuilding all parts of their nation. While they had talented scientists I would wager they had other things to spend their budget on.
France is France and thus a mess. Its anyones guess.
Italy is poor and already has a strained economy so probably couldnt afford the bomb even if they could put a team together.
British Empire has huge resources, manpower, and a robust scientific community. Even "helped" to a degree in the US atomic project. If they started early enough and were well funded enough they could do it, biggest impediment is a government likely unwilling to fund the project seriously while also rearming conventionally.
The USA did it OTL so could obviously do it ITTL.
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As an outlier, how about if Sweden decided it would give them a good defence for their neutrality?
Switzerland apparently considered it.
Switzerland and weapons of mass destruction - Wikipedia
Sweden did come pretty close if I remember correctly, I think I have even seen cold war era documents which speculated that Sweden may have nuclear weapons despite claims to the contrary.
A TL i have sometimes thought about is one where British Railways didn't go all out to eliminate steam by 1968 and instead made the withdrawal more gradual, as was common on the Continent. The money saved on hundreds of often unreliable and unneeded diesels was spent on more electrification. However, i wonder if this could have butterflied away the HST which would have resulted in BR being in worse shape by the 1980s.
There are a couple of really good BR timelines on this site, I am fairly sure one of them had an approach like this.
1992 - Due to having made up the entirety of the USSR in the last four days of its existence, Kazakhstan ends up inheriting the defunct superpower's permanent seat on the UN Security Council.
Its a fun idea but.
Sounds too much of a ASB.
It is true that in its independence Kazakhstan had nuclear weapons, but they are not enough to confer upon it a status of great power outside its immediate area.
Furthermore, Russia would remain the 'legitimate' heir to the Soviet Union, and therefore the permanent seat on the security council and veto power.
Because among other things, Russia inherited the debt and position of the USSR in various treaties signed by the Soviets.
Can the Soviet Union-Kazakhstan fulfill all this? If not, it is quite impossible.
Although a Russia-Kazakhstan union (led in part by the Kazakh side of the union) might meet these conditions.
If France had been defeated and it looked like the British were losing, yes. Britain could overlook the Italian aggression in Greece due to the need to focus on Germany and potentially Japan.