Your telling me. I still remember how my dad was when he put down our beagle when I was a kid. (Poor thing had seizures and at some point after a vet appointment... well Dad borrowed a pellet gun from someone he knew, it was quick, clean and from what I understand Sarah (our dog) was unconscious...
Let’s see, November 1983 I was -6 months old. (Born may 1984). My parents lived in Wichita Falls, TX, where I live today. Which happens to be the location of Shepherd AFB, a major NATO training base. At that time and now. My neighbors growing up had a tornado shelter built after Terrible Tuesday...
I’m not too familiar with Southern Arizona but considering it looks like the US controls the part of the Colorado where it turns east. On both sides of the river. those Colorado River defenses are looking less impregnable barriers and more maginot line that can be gone around instead of thru
If its microbes then most people will lose interest after a few weeks (or days)
Now if Huygens photographs herds of something on the way down and gets close ups after a herd walks by after landing that will get people excited (and guarantee at least one follow up probe with a lander)
And...
put him in charge of coastal defense of california, make it seem like a very important posistion ( they may raid San Diego next after all :p) and leave him there to wither on the vine as the post becomes less important and history leaves him behind as a footnote (like General Whats-his-name who...
while it was not the official Russian name, i wouldn't be surprised if the KGB had the guy that gave the Mig-15 (or was it the -17) the NATO designation of "Faggot" assassinated (or at least thought about it)
Ok, so the West pushed the issue with the Berlin blockade and won (so basically OTL there really...) I guess aside from an airlift?
Because how did the GDR lose all that land in the West? A land invasion (as opposed to flying along the internationally recognized air corridors between West...
I have a feeling that if Tito said that to Stalin in the thoughts that it was what Stalin wanted to hear then Stalin would find some way to have some NKVD agents pay a visit to Tito to have a nice little chat...;)
Napoleon's fleet would have had a better chance of having a few surviving ships as some USN or RN admiral would have wanted ordered a few captured so they could find out why some idiots are floating around in a war zone in what looks like a bunch of 19th century ships of the line.
Well thats good to know... I guess... in a horrifying sort of way, that tactical nuclear war is survivable even if your are close to the blast provided its an airburst and you aren't close enough to just be a charred shadow on the ground...
Having never been in the military due to being deaf...
I've heard rumors that one of the original plans for the use of the atomic bomb was to clear the beach just before amphibious forces went ashore in Japan so as to prevent something like Omaha, due to lack of knowledge that it wasn't "just a little radiation" (like say, an X-rays worth) in the...
Huh, could have sworn it said something to that effect on halfasscliffnotes.org... sorry I meant Wikipedia, when I read his article a few years ago.
Of course it may well have, and then got edited out
Honestly due to wartime pragmatism there wouldn't be a purge in the sense of removing them from the project, they're too valuable. What could happen is that they find it very hard to communicate with the outside world and are watched closely, and likely obviously even to the scientists, to...