I am currently reading the ebook version of Harry Turtledove's novel - Settling Accounts: In at the Death.
It is the last novel of the Settling Accounts tetralogy that presents an alternate history of World War II.
In the last chapter, at the end of WW2, only the US and German Empire, both allies, have nuclear weapons technology and unlike the Cold War in OITL, both powers agreed to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons technology to the other powerful nations of this alternate world, which were mainly Britain, France, Russia and Japan.
Reading the book, I got the impression that it was a a much more militarized world, with censorship levels approaching that of a police state, even in the US.
The President of this alternate world, Thomas Dewey, publicly pledged alongside the German Kaiser to prevent the spread of nuclear technology beyond their own countries.
Is that feasible? Reading through some of the older threads in this forum and on reddit, I sometimes get the impression that some of the forummers here believe that so long as an industrialized state with 1950s technology (which is what Britain, France, Russia and Japan are in this ATL) with a ready supply of uranium put their minds to it, that state will eventually get to atomic weapons.
It is the last novel of the Settling Accounts tetralogy that presents an alternate history of World War II.
In the last chapter, at the end of WW2, only the US and German Empire, both allies, have nuclear weapons technology and unlike the Cold War in OITL, both powers agreed to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons technology to the other powerful nations of this alternate world, which were mainly Britain, France, Russia and Japan.
Reading the book, I got the impression that it was a a much more militarized world, with censorship levels approaching that of a police state, even in the US.
The President of this alternate world, Thomas Dewey, publicly pledged alongside the German Kaiser to prevent the spread of nuclear technology beyond their own countries.
Is that feasible? Reading through some of the older threads in this forum and on reddit, I sometimes get the impression that some of the forummers here believe that so long as an industrialized state with 1950s technology (which is what Britain, France, Russia and Japan are in this ATL) with a ready supply of uranium put their minds to it, that state will eventually get to atomic weapons.