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  1. Alternate SCOTUS Appointments

    Wikipedia has a series of articles (one for each President, starting from Harding) on the Supreme Court candidates of each president - including the names that were mentioned in the press. Here's George H.W. Bush's page.

  2. AHC: Republicans Win Spanish Civil War

    The trouble with having the RN block movement of the Army of Africa is that the British were already fairly friendly with the Nationalists - and rather unsympathetic to the Republic, particularly after they learned that Republican sailors had killed their own officers to ensure their ships...

  3. That Wacky Redhead

    Nope - Tyler presented himself as the President, and set the precedent for vice-presidents becoming Presidents (rather than Acting Presidents) when their running-mates died in office. *** Was George Takei a Scoop Jackson Democrat in OTL, too? Definitely happy to see a Marylander who isn't...

  4. WI: Bulgaria stays Neutral in WWII

    Would that delay Barbarossa? For that matter, would not being initially able to use Bulgaria as a base to invade Greece delay the fall of Greece, and possibly affect Crete? A quick look at wikipedia suggests that this man would probably end up running any collaborationist government set up in...

  5. Japan and US go to war in 1913

    According to the Anglo-Japanese alliance, Britain would provide support if Japan were at war with more than one Power (and vice versa). So only if the US gets itself an ally do you get an Anglo-American war. Even without direct military support, though, Britain might help finance Japan's war...

  6. Operation unthinkable - was it really unthinkable?

    I think part of the problem is this: how does the US and UK sell a new war -against wartime allies - to the voters at home? How much longer would British and American troops have been willing to fight (especially given that they weren't fighting the Nazis or the Japs, but instead turning on...

  7. Possible Liberal Independent Candidates, 1980?

    Ted Kennedy. He was relatively popular, liberal, ambitious, and had tried to unseat Carter in the 1980 Democratic primaries in OTL. Admittedly, I'm not sure he'd go against his party, but it could happen.

  8. Why no love for Japan?

    Not totally sure that works - Mussolini attacked Ethiopia explicitly to avenge Adowa, while a good portion of the IJA was convinced that it could take control of the Soviet Far East despite having had to abandon its efforts to back a White Russian puppet state out of Vladivostok back in 1922...

  9. Why no love for Japan?

    I'd guess that it has to do with the fact that Japan didn't have a Hitler - a single, highly visible figure who can be blamed for the country's slide into fascism and militarism. Not that without Hitler, Germany couldn't have become a fascist, aggressive state, but it takes less effort/research...

  10. AHC Challenge: Judaism is Sephardic, not Ashkenazic:

    Vague thoughts: 1) Would a Judaism that develops in an Italy that's more Muslim-dominated (at least through the High Middle Ages, late enough to pick up Jewish refugees from crusaders' pogroms along the Rhine) be counted as Sephardic? 2) I'm not totally sure whether it's more important to weaken...

  11. AHC: Swiss Nuclear Program!

    This happened in OTL, though the Swiss abandoned their nuclear weapons program before the Non-Proliferation Treaty went into effect; their program doesn't seem to have been as far along as the Swedish one, which actually contemplated development of a bomber to deliver its nuclear weapons.

  12. WW2 - Wedemeyer wrecks Anglo-American Trust

    Wouldn't the more likely result be for the US to reassign Wedemeyer and sweep everything under the rug?

  13. AHC: Create a larger African front in WWI

    In principle, there could've been a Libyan front had Italy stuck with the Central Powers and declared war on France (which implies different Italian foreign policy in the run-up to war). Probably also an Eritrean front, and perhaps even an Abyssinian front, depending on how events pan out in...

  14. Steampunk movie or TV show

    Incidentally, the movie was based on a '60s TV show, so this would be going from TV to movie to TV. Huh. *** Generally, I think that an animated steampunk show would be more likely to last for multiple seasons - expectations and costs are lower. Admittedly, that wouldn't necessarily be...

  15. Steampunk movie or TV show

    Brisco County Jr. had elements of steampunk. Wikipedia also mentions another shortlived TV series, Legend, from the mid-'90s.

  16. AH Title and Description Game

    A timeline in which Friedrich Nietzsche enjoys better physical and mental health, affecting the history of modern philosophy (especially nihilism and existentialism). The title comes from a philosophical movement unique to the timeline (albeit broadly similar to Nietzscheanism and...

  17. If Stalin died in the 1930s...

    What would happen if Stalin died in 1934 (the year of the 'Congress of Victors')? Who would likely end up running Soviet policy? How might that affect events later in the 1930s, and into the 1940s?

  18. WI Germany declares war against the Soviet Union during the Khalkhin Gol incident.

    One point that should be noted: the Kwantung Army took the initiative of invading Mongolia, not the Japanese government. Japan did not declare war on the USSR, nor did it want a war. German aid wouldn't be particularly large, given the sheer distance involved - not to mention the fact that...

  19. WI Germany declares war against the Soviet Union during the Khalkhin Gol incident.

    What does Germany gain from this alliance, and how does it stack up against the gains from Molotov-Ribbentrop? These gains included: *Soviet resources *A guarantee that the Germans could fight their war against the Western allies without worrying about an Eastern front *Less time for Poland...

  20. Battleships still a viable option?

    Specifically for the refit, not for a new-build; for that matter, an Arleigh Burke mounted a sophisticated air defense system and a vertical-launch system, while the Iowa was paying for just a few box-launchers for the Tomahawks, a few mostly self-contained CIWS mounts, and a few Harpoon...
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