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Perhaps, though historically there was more interest on the left, before Stalin in '37. Maybe a victorious Republican Spain? Esperanto was popular amonst Spanish anarchists, some groups socialists and the Catalan nationalists. Alternatively as a common language for a supra-national federation (I...

Socialist revolution back when Esperanto was fashionable amongst the left?

Esperanto Australia?

Mmmmmmm, well.... Almost certainly the whole Taured story is a complete fake from start to finish, loosely inspired by Zegrus, but why not another microstate? Or indeed a much bigger one in Africa.

More surviving micro-states, Fraxinet, Neutral Moresnet, Couto Misto, perhaps Taured.

The 1911 Act allowed for it's replacement by an elected senate.

Yes, the RAND paper is intended as a basis for solving the ABM problem, but has no such references.

I find that extraordinarily unlikely. Typical re-entry velocity is 7-9km/s and decelerating from that would require somehow shedding a vast amount of kinetic energy rather quickly without destroying the RV. I refer you to the 1963 RAND compilation 'DATA FOR ICBM RE-ENTRY TRAJECTORIES' RM-3475-ARPA.

There are no subsonic ballistic missiles. Even antiques like Skean and FROG, or artillery rockets like the BM-21s, were supersonic. There were subsonic cruise missiles, like Gryphon or Shaddock, but they are a different matter.

Now I'm having visions of Great War style mining with the tunnels meeting and both sides agreeing not to fight....

It has survived.

Plus the perception that the NATO technological superiority would be able to neutralise the Soviet 'style of war', i.e. precision attacks on command centres and non-nuclear area-effect weapons like ICM/SICM. Also the potential first-strike decapitation abilities of Gryphon, Pershing II, Trident...

That seems plausible to me. So no SC examination of presidential eligibility, and look at "natural born citizen" then.

And there you have the real problem. The government and populace (a lot more of whom could now vote) didn't want to spend money on new battleships that had no perceived utility. What were they for? The Great War was over and there was no requirement for new construction in sight in 1922...

Hmmm, a good question. I think not given that he'd served more than half of Nixon's term and (presumably) would serve more than half of Regan's. But I suspect the US Supreme Court would have to adjudicate.