Reminds me of a cracked.com article about nuclear disasters that I read years ago.
Back in the 1950s, there were basically "Alright guys, now charge at that nuclear blast, and see what happen."
In Vegas, nuclear blast from tests at the distance even became some sort of tourist attraction for...
I read somewhere in this forum that they conduct drills that were indistinguishable from the real deal all the time specifically to avoid this.
This makes me wonder, If any president ever decide to do that in the event of an obvious nuclear strike, will somebody literally try to wrestle the...
Well, the UK is still out there, so perhaps the Beatles could still popped around in this TL. I have no doubt that the Nazis under Goebbels will have an even more negative reaction to them than even the Soviet Union IOTL.
Indonesia have a history of the "king's" second in command/right hand man being from minority group. This is extremely useful for the "king" because the fact of the right hand man being from minority group curtailed his ability to usurp power. In modern time, ones of the most memorable name...
I wonder how medical science advance in the reich compared to OTL and ATL United States/rest of the world. Even if they have ample supplies of fresh human bodies for experimentation, I can see that at the end of the day, all they managed to do is to inflict pointless human suffering while...
Maybe, just maybe, once they have destroyed everyone and everything in this world for "their cause", at the top of that pile of ash, those who were left will finally starting to ask
"what now?"
Could the party establishment doubled down on their early denialism and completely refused to evacuate nearby settlements? At least for a longer time than OTL.
Speaking about the gang of eight, what happened to them? Did their underground complex got destroyed in the nuclear inferno, or they survived initially? Because it has been established here that Reagan and the Mt. Cheyenne complex survived direct nuclear strike.
Some folks above already mentioned the instabilities under parliamentary democracy in the early 1950s.
First I'm gonna be honest, I still quite like a parliamentary democracy system, especially compared to the original (not amended) 1945 constitution, which I found to be, uh....let's just say...