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  1. Looking for a couple of old threads--please help?

    I can't for the life of me find the ORIGINAL Protect and Survive thread--I could have sworn there was a story only thread. There also was a thread about life in Australia/NZ during/after a nuclear exchange--I can't find it. Can someone please help?

  2. How far back do you have to go to avoid "current politics"...

    I know Trump is off limits... Is Obama far enough back at this point? GWB?

  3. Was there ever a realistic danger of a disarming Soviet first strike against the US in the 1977-1989 period?

    Just watched this video: It starts off with a scenario where 95+ percent of our Minutemen missiles, and over 90 percent of our bombers, and 60 percent of our SLBM submarines, are destroyed on the ground by a Soviet first strike that only hits strategic military targets, with 8 million US...

  4. Please help me find this book

    I remember reading a book on Kindle a number of years ago about West Virginia trying to secede in the early 21st century, and how the rebellion gets crushed. I believe the author wrote a couple of more books and made a small series out of it. But for the life of me I cannot remember the...

  5. Is uchronia.net dead?

    Hasn't been updated in a lonnnnng time... (Since the site deals with books thought it would be appropriate for this forum. Sorry if I'm wrong.)

  6. AHC: US Strategic nuclear first strike (1962-1991)

    Should you choose to accept it, your challenge is to give a plausible scenario where the United States launches a first strike on the Soviet Union with strategic nuclear weapons, between 1962 and the end of the Cold War.

  7. Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning: An Oral History Of The Nuclear War Of 2008, And Of Life Thereafter

    From the front page of the first edition: Dedicated to Studs Terkel, who set the bar for oral historians. His books were my teacher, both before and after the war. If this book is one percent as good as his worst, it will be great. My only regret is that he will not get to read this one...

  8. Need help with a thread idea I'm working on

    Can someone give me the name (if any) of an Obama cabinet official, preferably a low-level one, who was overseas during the first two weeks of September 2008? Preferably Australia or New Zealand, but if not those I'll take anyplace out of the way that is not likely to be overly targeted during a...

  9. The Night Boxing Died...October 2, 1980

    "...and that ends the tenth round as the fighters go to their respective corners. Ali still looks somewhat affected by the horrendous beating he took in the ninth...a very animated discussion going on in Ali's corner...you can see Ali violently shaking his head back and forth telling Dundee...

  10. Fact check: Would JFK Airport have been a first-strike target in a nuclear war?

    I'm working on a thread that involves this set in 1973. JFK Airport is New York City's biggest, located in the borough of Queens, almost at the Nassau County line. It had at the time one runway big enough to land/take off a B-52, with the possibility of doing so on a second. Would this have...

  11. Destiny's Tears--and you thought OUR '70s were screwed up?

    OOC: A couple of things I want to get out front here. This thread is going to be a dystopia with an October 1973 POD. This being said, we're going to see just how bad the POD can make the world WITHOUT, repeat, WITHOUT, an all-out nuclear exchange between the superpowers. So if Protect and...

  12. "New York City is f****d."

    Saturday, October 12, 2000. 1:30 AM EDT. Jason Perrine was the NWS Chief for the Northeast Region. This night he was in the Upton, NY NWS office. He had a stack of papers on his desk, all dealing with the same thing. The gun they'd had to their heads for the last two weeks, Hurricane Keith...

  13. The Dream Delivered...

    February 1, 2015 A family sitting around the TV, watching the Super Bowl. Seattle has called it's final timeout, with the ball at the New England 1-yard line. The commentators are talking when all of a sudden the screen goes black, and is replaced by a NBC News Special Bulletin graphic, which...

  14. DBWI: What if the Soviets had won the battle of Stalingrad?

    As we all know, on September 1, 1942, the 4th Panzer Army broke the back of the Russian 62nd Army and secured control of Stalingrad. How would our world today be different, say, if the Russians had held the city? How else might the end of the war had looked, instead of in our world, where the...

  15. "They're all gone. All of them."

    January 28, 1987. 2:53 AM, Moscow time. Mikhail Gorbachev sits alone, in his office in the Kremlin. A television is tuned to CNN, readying for President Reagan's State of The Union speech. He is idly going through some letters in a pile of what his aide marked low importance. An envelope...

  16. DBWI: What if Jesus of Nazareth had been crucified?

    I was just thinking the other day...what if Pontius Pilate had given in to the mob and ordered Jesus of Nazareth crucified, instead of sparing his life and ordering him returned to the Galilee? How might the ancient world have evolved differently? Any speculation on what the effects might be...

  17. DBWI: What if we hadn't nuked Tora Bora?

    I think almost anyone alive has seen President Bush's famous speech of November 12, 2001 announcing that the United States had used four bunker-busting nuclear bombs, each of 340 kilotons in strength, against Al-Qaeda's Tora Bora complex, destroying the complex and either killing Osama Bin Laden...

  18. What happens to Britain without ANY American aid in WWII?

    No Lend-Lease, no ships, no loans, no nothing. The war kicks off as OTL on 9/1/39 with the German invasion of Poland, and Britain and France declare war. What is the most likely outcome for Britain? If you think they would have lost/been forced to agree to armistice, how long do you think...

  19. A Sun Setting...a slightly :) different Second World War

    OOC: Yep, I know I've started this one before. Being smarter now. Have the first five posts planned out. That being said, enjoy the ride... December 8th, 1941. 11:57 am. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is outside the entrance to the House of Representatives chamber in the Capitol, speaking to...

  20. Television alternate history--is this ASB?

    Is there a non-ASB POD that can occur early enough so that television is at a mid-1950's level of technology and home availability by September 1st, 1939?
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