Wouldn't Spandau have been used to house POW?
Oh, Spandau would certainly be used as a POW camp if it doesn’t get nuked, once the previous inhabitants (read: Nazi criminals who should have gotten the noose) are dealt with.
Wouldn't Spandau have been used to house POW?
I’d suggest mountainous Tajikistan might be relatively unscathed due to its lack of significant targets and its location. The High Pamirs would provide some shielding. Khazakstan is very flat and of course was the site of the Baikanal cosmodrome and quite a lot of military infrastructure.*Germany, Czechloslovakia, and Poland are likely radioactive graveyards (perhaps sparing Bavaria), Austria and northern Italy are likely occupied by the Communists, and overall the West wins the war. Russia is...just...gone...and its satellites are independent by year's end. Ukraine is battered but functional, Kazakhstan is perhaps in the best shape overall, and China *may* fall apart without Russian support.
IOTL there was a “Captive Nations Day” dedicated to nations occupied by Soviet Russia and Red China so there would have been at least some support in backing independent states in those areas, but Ukraine with its farms and heavy industry is screwed.I’d suggest mountainous Tajikistan might be relatively unscathed due to its lack of significant targets and its location. The High Pamirs would provide some shielding. Khazakstan is very flat and of course was the site of the Baikanal cosmodrome and quite a lot of military infrastructure.
Why should they have gotten the noose? Hess should have been released regardless of Russian objections.Oh, Spandau would certainly be used as a POW camp if it doesn’t get nuked, once the previous inhabitants (read: Nazi criminals who should have gotten the noose) are dealt with.
*Very limited nuclear weapon production in the USSR at that time, by 1955 there were perhaps 200 in their stockpile so maybe 100 total in 1953?
Or worse - if the US has few or no direct casualties it may be both loathed internationally and invigorated to consider tactical nuclear a legitimate means of warfare. There could be a very inappropriate counter-reaction, and certainly this US will not have the realignment and cultural evolution experienced in OTL from the late 50s onwards.Whatever way the war will go, I’m going to expect at least a decade of nihilism after it. Even if the US scores a massive victory the cost will be way too high for its own citizens to bare.
there is the idea suggested by @B_Munro of US post-nuclear *Fascist unipolarity - e.g using nukes to wipe out large numbers of nonwhite people/any nations they consider a potential rival just because they can - see What Madness is ThisOr worse - if the US has few or no direct casualties it may be both loathed internationally and invigorated to consider tactical nuclear a legitimate means of warfare. There could be a very inappropriate counter-reaction, and certainly this US will not have the realignment and cultural evolution experienced in OTL from the late 50s onwards.
Would US companies eventually outsource or would that never happen?Well the US would be a hyperpower for perhaps twenty years or more and decolonization would be a fact whether anyone else liked it or not. Canada, India, China, Argentina, Brazil, and South Africa would be the next-tier powers and an Alliance Againast America could be in the works. Eisenhower's Interstate System still likely goes through and the US probably has 70+% of global industrial capacity at that point but the space race is largely nixed and overall technological development is likely slower in some areas. A Peace Corps equivalent might emerge but may not be welcome in all countries.
Unless it's for USAF Blue Gemini and manned MOL for observing the ruins of Eurasia from LEO for any remaining Communist basespoint but the space race is largely nixed
Well the US would be a hyperpower for perhaps twenty years or more and decolonization would be a fact whether anyone else liked it or not. Canada, India, China, Argentina, Brazil, and South Africa would be the next-tier powers and an Alliance Againast America could be in the works.
This was bought up in discussions about AANW on another site - if the US is in sole possession of nukes/rods from god, why is there an alliance against tgem?Who would be participating in such an alliance? In this scenario, Western Europe would still be around, although having received some limited amount of Soviet instant sunshine.
For example, if China would be doing an Alliance Against America, and they would be undergoing a massive nuclear buildup, would the US just nuke them?
This was bought up in discussions about AANW on another site - if the US is in sole possession of nukes/rods from god, why is there an alliance against tgem?