What does a 1950s WWIII look like?

Difficulty juggling quotes, however the statement by Marathag that hundreds of cities burned to the ground during WW2 did not produce nuclear winter in 1946, was countered by galveston bay (whom I frequently agree with) presenting British weather data from the particularly snowy winter of early 1947.

If the severe winter of 1946/1947 did, in fact, result from firebombing in 1943 thru early 1945, what happened to the winters of '43/44, '44/45 and particularly 1945/1946? Why would man-made climate change skip a year when no cities burned before striking?

The answer to this might help me better understand present arguments favoring man-made global warming, or the oncoming ice-age predicted in the 1970s.

Dynasoar
 
There is this article on Collier's Magazine called Preview of the War We Do Not Want that details how would a WWIII play out, complete with subarticles written by folks like Edward Murrow himself, though it's quite optimistic in some cases, especially regarding how it seems to skim over how the war itself goes in the latter half.

Interesting that the Casus Belli is a Soviet attack on Yugoslavia. People tend to forget that the US were actively supporting a communist country (against Russia) during the McCarthy era.
 
Difficulty juggling quotes, however the statement by Marathag that hundreds of cities burned to the ground during WW2 did not produce nuclear winter in 1946, was countered by galveston bay (whom I frequently agree with) presenting British weather data from the particularly snowy winter of early 1947.

If the severe winter of 1946/1947 did, in fact, result from firebombing in 1943 thru early 1945, what happened to the winters of '43/44, '44/45 and particularly 1945/1946? Why would man-made climate change skip a year when no cities burned before striking?

The answer to this might help me better understand present arguments favoring man-made global warming, or the oncoming ice-age predicted in the 1970s.

Dynasoar

I am cautious about linking the weather and the bombing, but it is interesting. It would seem a good candidate for an academic study by climate specialists though. I wonder if anyone has looked at it.

The 1940s had some notably brutal winters, with the winter 39-40 being notably savage too. Bombing hadn't really started much yet (except Warsaw). Hence the caution.
 

Jack Brisco

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Mao and the rest of the CCP might have been crafty enough to cut a deal and get out of the war. They do in "Preview Of The War We Do Not Want", so some people in the US must've been open to that idea.

TBH the war happening in 1950 and the war happening in 1959 are almost unrecognizably different. 1950 = Like WWII again but a lot of the strategic bombing is nuclear, most of the US mainland is spared. 1959 = apocalyptic for Europe and the USSR, very bad for the US, the US "wins" but nations like India, Brazil and Australia become the great powers by default. The H-bomb is a real game-changer, means one bomb can destroy a whole large city as opposed to just a big town.

The 1959 scenario is played out in Alas, Babylon. If you haven't read it highly recommend doing so. Easily available at libraries/bookstores. The kind of book you'd want to purchase and keep; got my first copy about 50 years ago.
 
How loyal would their satellite states be? Wouldn't there be a pretty large civil uprising?

No, there wouldn’t be large civil uprisings. Berlin and Poland were working class uprisings. In Poland the reformist opportunists used 56 to take power. In Hungary there was a stronger left communist and revolutionary social democratic movement inside the party, which both tail ended working class communists and revolutionary social democrats.

So no: no civil uprising. What you’d see is a left / reformist take over of the CCs. So more like what Tito did to the Stalinists.

Indeed, there was a huge revolt against communist rule in Hungary, which I mentioned in the original post.

Which was a communist revolution—nationalist parties were limited to regional areas and all agreed on the continuation of socialism.

Land redistribution and workers control; combined with a gentleness towards soviet forces caused by allied bombing.

To what extent might the United States spare Soviet satellite states that undergo active anticommunist unrest? After all, one of the PODs that I suggest is the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 spiraling out of control, and under the circumstances, it’s certainly possible that you could see renewed/exacerbated tensions in East Germany and Poland

The United States from their own perspective cleverly, and correctly, threw Hungary under the bus. The only internal dissent was rank and filers in RFA/RE.

I’d suspect that neutralised socialist states, ala Yugoslavia, will find an arrangement. But I’m assuming that it will take longer than four weeks for political committees and central committees to eliminate the anti-party blocs in their own governments.

Yours,
Sam R.
 
There was also a WWIII in the late 50's in one of many novels of a series called the Psychotechnic League; namely the "POD" is the early death of Einshower that allows Nixon to become POTUS and somehow he escalates the Hungarian uprising into a war with the Eastern Bloc by 1958. There's a brief rundown of how the war itself went but it had the US somehow suffer a lot like how the USSR did even though the former clearly had an advantage in having a massive arsenal of nuclear weapons compared to the latter.
 
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