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The Ukraine gets mighty mad that the 'West/NATO' isn't helping with the asymmetric threat the Russians are posing, as they give up the Crimea they go the poison pill route. Either a nuclear weapon or chemical/biological weapons are left behind (during the breakup of the USSR such a misplacement...

Hi all! Just watched WarGames (1983) again. When Joshua is trying to 'learn' it goes through a vast number of nuclear war scenarios. I'll list what I could get below. What, aside from the obvious ones, did some of the more obscure ones entail? The list: U.S. FIRST STRIKE USSR FIRST STRIKE...

The fallout is what will slowly kill you. The map above shows that west is the way, N California, Oregon and possibly parts of Idaho and Northern Nevada... all depends on wind patterns and if the blasts in So Cal are ground bursts or not. As for the Maritimes they would be thick with fallout due...

The group of mechanics that my father falls into, the ones just about to retire (55-65 years old) know these machines like the back of their hands. No issues there. If any small warning can be given the simple expedient of disconnecting the battery and pulling fuses can safeguard a modern...

Pull it back a bit further. What if the Essex class were sold to the British and French as a part of Lend Lease? A bit far fetched but both combatants needed carriers and once the Pacific battlefleet was built keeping production full tilt for the British and French a few each would be a simple...

For Canada! For Canada to get the Trafalgar Class I think we need a greater Soviet threat in the North Atlantic and possibly in the Arctic as well. If Soviet submarines start appearing off Baffin Island, playing the seagoing version of a Bear bomber encroaching on our airspace the need might be...

Best Possible Canadian Air Component? Two Canadian divergences have already been noted. I think these two nearly minor changes would have been the best possible outcome for the Canadian Forces and the most plausible. Jean Chrétien does not kill the Chimo/Petrel twins. Really it was one of...

US propaganda campaign in North Korea following a full collapse of government upon the death of Kim Il-sung in 1994. Operation Northern Springboard

Canadian Targets I think the Canadian target list is pretty much dead on. By hitting Gagetown in NB the Sovs have disrupted all rail and road traffic south to Saint John and Halifax. Halifax though leads me to a question. The Sovs hit Cornwallis and Aldershot. Both are training camps/bases...

If she does nothing and waits Britain will once again rule most of the inhabited world. If she does nothing there will be no USA to call her on it, no USSR to launch at the British Empire. It may be cold, but I think she has the guts to do it. She announces the neutrality of Great Britain...

Would no Cuban Missile Crisis mean that there would be another near miss somewhere down the road? After the CMC came the hotlines, with no CMC we have less communication between the two groups. Could this make for problems?

Could Canada be kept the same in a scenario like this? Possibly with greater ties to Europe/Commonwealth?

Always Arthur Currie. He gave more thought to casualties than most at the time did. He did not treat the men he had cavalierly, he used them as the valuable resource they were.

Canada must have been close to that in the late 70's early 80's given the missions we were expected to undertake in case of war. I am saying this as a Canadian who has studied that era as best I can and examined many sources basically saying the same thing.

Halifax will always have the main shipyard during a war, simple answer to why is logistics. Halifax has a rail connection. St.John's would need everything shipped in, therefore vulnerable to the same U-Boats.