Timeline-191 Meet Doomsday 1983

Well using the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup process of combining two great things, What do we get when "Hey! You got Your Timeline-191 in my Doomsday 1983!" "No You got Your Doomsday 1983 in My Timeline-191!"

What happens if Colonel Stanley Peters is not on duty on September 26th, 1983 and he doesn't save the world by NOT reporting the Nuclear attack by the Reich that the computer at his base detected. As it turned out the attack was just a glitch but with someone less level headed on duty the message of Nuclear attack is sent on to the highest levels. Thinking they only have minutes, maybe less, missiles are launched. The Third Great War begins and Sun Bombs and Super Bombs start to fall.

How did things get so bad between former allies? Does President David Blackford survive? Will the South rise again? Canada?
 
Well using the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup process of combining two great things, What do we get when "Hey! You got Your Timeline-191 in my Doomsday 1983!" "No You got Your Doomsday 1983 in My Timeline-191!"

What happens if Colonel Stanley Peters is not on duty on September 26th, 1983 and he doesn't save the world by NOT reporting the Nuclear attack by the Reich that the computer at his base detected. As it turned out the attack was just a glitch but with someone less level headed on duty the message of Nuclear attack is sent on to the highest levels. Thinking they only have minutes, maybe less, missiles are launched. The Third Great War begins and Sun Bombs and Super Bombs start to fall.

How did things get so bad between former allies? Does President David Blackford survive? Will the South rise again? Canada?

Nice little scenario there, but I'm far more convinced that TTL's U.S.A. would be far more afraid of the Russians than Germany; remember, Alaska did (finally!) get taken in the '40s, during TTL's WWII and I don't think the Russian government would have been willing to forget that for a long time. And of course, then there's the logistics, and so on and so forth.

Bottom line: Good idea, but needs to be reworked, if you'd like to take plausibility into account. ;)
 
I had wondered about where to put it. Timeline-191 is an alternate history without magic or space Battery. (Yes the parallelism is a bit much) but technically its just what happens to a world where the South wins the Civil War, and after the North and South fight 2 more wars.

Doomsday 1983 adds Nuclear War to it

If it was The Worldwar series or LOTR meets DD 83 then definately. ASB & M

As to Russia, they're not that big a threat in this universe. Its not USA-USSR-China its USA-Reich (Second not Third) and the Empire of Japan.

England of course not having to support a military anymore goes on to take over the Automobile and electronics industry ;)
 

Anaxagoras

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Any thread that deals with a fictional universe (and TL-191 is a fictional universe) goes in the ASB forum.
 
I had wondered about where to put it. Timeline-191 is an alternate history without magic or space Battery. (Yes the parallelism is a bit much) but technically its just what happens to a world where the South wins the Civil War, and after the North and South fight 2 more wars.

Doomsday 1983 adds Nuclear War to it

If it was The Worldwar series or LOTR meets DD 83 then definately. ASB & M

As to Russia, they're not that big a threat in this universe. Its not USA-USSR-China its USA-Reich (Second not Third) and the Empire of Japan.

England of course not having to support a military anymore goes on to take over the Automobile and electronics industry ;)

Yes, I realize the USSR doesn't exist ITTL, that is true. But all I'm saying is, the Germans had no reason to be wary of the U.S. after WWII; the Russians, however, did, after America took Alaska from them. ;)
 

Anaxagoras

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Technically speaking aren't all AH's fictional universes? What makes TL-191 ASB forum material?

In the regular forums (Pre-1900 and Post-1900), we discuss PODs within actual history. According to forum rules, discussions of a POD that takes place in a fictional setting, such as TL-191, the Star Trek Universe, Lord of the Rings, of whatever, go in ASB.
 
In the regular forums (Pre-1900 and Post-1900), we discuss PODs within actual history. According to forum rules, discussions of a POD that takes place in a fictional setting, such as TL-191, the Star Trek Universe, Lord of the Rings, of whatever, go in ASB.

Not necessarily. One of the Daves on this site put his well-done TL-191 fanfic "After the End" in the Writer's forum, and the mods & Ian haven't had any issues yet. ;)
 

Anaxagoras

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Not necessarily. One of the Daves on this site put his well-done TL-191 fanfic "After the End" in the Writer's forum, and the mods & Ian haven't had any issues yet. ;)

The Writer's Forum, sure. All sorts of stuff can go there. But not the Before 1900 Forum.

Here is the official description of the ASB Forum: "Discuss alternate history scenarios that involve time travel, magic, alien intervention, anything in the sea of time, and other such weirdness. Also alternate histories taking place in fictional universes (Star Wars, etc)."
 
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