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My thread from the previous board if Alexander had struck West https://www.alternatehistory.com/discus/messages/4/2177.html

"The Jesus Factor" by Edwin Corley 1970 assumes that Trinity fails, & the US covers it up by fire bombing Hiroshima with 500 B29s dropping incendiaries and photoflashes to simulate an A bomb hit! WI the USS Indiannopolis (in which 800 men died) carrying to Tinian the only Plutonium then...

WI Slavic brotherhood & pride overcomes the desire for $$$, & Boris ups the ante?

Just before the bombing of Serbia started in 1999,Yeltsin gave a speech saying that Clinton was threatening world peace and even intimated at WWIII. WI Yeltsin backed up his rhetoric by immediately shipping over 100 Russian-manned Mig 29s, 100 Tunguskas and 100 S300s, Brezhnev style? How would...

Queen Victoria, "The Widow of Windsor", was born in 1819 and ruled from 1837-1901. 1. How would history have differed from OTL if she had reached a 100 years old, and the Victorian Age had lasted until 1920? Would there even have been a WW1 with her as queen, even if senile? 2. How would...

Interestingly, the only one's that launch their rockets to the West are the Israelis, so that their spy satellites won't land accidentally in Jordan, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan or Iraq during the first critical 10 minutes. Launching to the West, counter to the Earth's (or the Universe's if...

At take off, its several million gallons of kerosene & lox have the explosive power of a small A bomb. Now that falling in one piece on Daytona Beach or Miami spells the end of the Shuttle!

From today's Guardian. "The Day Will Come that Will Burn Like an Oven!" (Malachi 3)! http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1153530,00.html

WI Gallipoli failed disastrously ie the entire initial 20,000 invasion force quickly killed or captured? Would Churchill's carreer ever recover? Who else's career would have been affected? What would be the effect on WW1 short & long term, & on Turkey's history?

This from Jan of the Dutch Navy site: "Winning the Battle of the Java sea is a long shot for the allies, but assuming it happened......then I would think along the lines of a shell or fragment hit in the torpedo banks of the Japanese cruisers. The Japanese torpedoes were known to explode much...

What would've been the result of Hitler suddenly developing a siege mentality and quickly pulling back from every front everyone of his soldiers, tanks, artillery, flak guns, aircraft, submarines into the Baltic etc into Germany's borders and river barriers in September 1944, making it one armed...

Together with that 500,000, if the Anglo-Americans are unable to land anywhere in France until 1945, would the 350,000 German troops,1000 aircraft and 1000 tanks slated for the Bulge, which was originally planned to be launched in November, plus the 100,000 from Northwind, plus 50,000 from the...

WI Anvil is called off before the troops land due to some stunning troop ship (eg five ships with 4000 men on each) losses due to lucky Fritz X and Henschel 293 hits. Hitler deems his Western Front safe for the time being and dares to denude it and rush 500,000 troops from Holland, France and...

The Titanic would have been sunk in 1918 off Ireland by U52 carrying the US "Big Red One" Division, with 12,000 doughbouys drowning.

"Airborne Assassination ... Presumably such an attempt would have been beyond the mindset of the Russians at that stage." As a matter of fact, during HItler's brief stay at the Eastern Front in July 1942 (when Hermann Graf and other JG 52 aces escorted his Fw 200), the Soviet Air Force...