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Points of Divergence : Weapons of Mass Destruction

Points of divergence concerning the history and development of missile, chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. Entries on the list are arranged as chronologically as possible.


Chemical Warfare in the American Civil War

WI Pedro Paule went public ?

No World War I. Who gets the Atomic bomb ?

WI the V-1 had been deployed much earlier ?

WI: No V-2 Missiles

Alternatives to the V1 & V2 rocket program

Allied equivalent to the V-2

Plausibility check: SLCM/SLBM systems fielded in World War II

If WWI didn't occur, how long would it take to invent nuclear weapons ?

Challenge: Earliest possible nuclear weapon

Two questions on nuclear technology

Challenge: Nukes developed before WWII

Earliest atomic power

Could the Germans not have screwed up their atomic research program ?

WI: No atomic bombs dropped on Japan

How can the invention of nuclear weapons be delayed until the 1950s or 1960s ?

Challenge: Make nukes popular

Alternate British Military Nuclear Program (Cold War)

Challenge: ICBMs used against a non-nuclear power

Worse Palomares crash

ASB WI: All nukes vanish in mid 1957

ASB WI: All WMDs disappear from Earth on the 4th July 1997

ASB WI: All the nukes in the world vanish forever

ASB WI: ASBs abolish air power, nukes and submarines

ASB WI: Everyone gets nukes

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