Point of Divergence :) I suspect there's a primer somewhere, but I've been here for 20 year and have no idea where it is. I am sure a mod will be along soon to straighten things out. Good luck!
During my brother's standup days (1987-88), he used to have a routine:
"Everyone here knows about the Zero Curse, right? Presidents elected in a year ending in zero die in office. Roosevelt, Kennedy, Lincoln... but not Reagan! Did he escape the curse?
Or is it now merely transmissible?
Has...
They might. I will say, having read most of the mags of the 60s, that Spider-Man was definitely the best of them. Plus, Spidey was sort of a Stan Lee alter ego.
That said, no Spidey could mean...something else even bigger. Lots of people don't like spiders. Maybe Bear Girl or something.
But the Korean War was a hot war. And if we're talking a matter of weeks rather than months, I don't think we can turn on a dime like that.
(also, a "few" and "a handful" are not going to make much difference compared to the 300 other bombers employed)
Sorry I missed this. Would they have time to set this up effectively if the war is on the scale of weeks rather than the months Germany had to set up their system (which ultimately was a Pyrrhic and short-lived victory)?
Per Baugher's site:
"The outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 led to a decision to adapt the B-45 to the tactical nuclear role as a deterrent against a Soviet attack against western Europe. However, the B-45 had not originally been designed with the delivery of atomic bombs in mind. Because of...
No doubt the Soviets won't make it to the US. B-45 won't have nukes until 1952, and they are susceptible to MiG-15. There also are fewer than a hundred of them.
In rebuttal to my previous post...
https://historum.com/t/b-36-in-soviet-airspace.91880/
If you go to the last post, testimony from the 1949 "B-36 hearings" paint a grim picture for The Peacemaker. On the other hand, while those gentlemen were confident that the Soviets would have night...
The 1950s are a TERRIBLE time for the Soviets to launch a first strike. 1954 would be an ideal time for the Americans to launch a first strike (if the goal was to destroy the Soviet Union and commit mass atrocity).
Let's go with 1951 (same year as "The Hot War"). The B-47 is not yet deployed...
I love this timeline, and it is one of the few I am subscribed to.
Pedantic note: "wary" is the word you want. "Weary" means tired. It does not, and never will mean "cautious" :)
I wonder, with far fewer pickings and the Med a far less vital theater, if Ellsberg goes to Iceland after all...
(he was a brilliant salvage officer who worked miracles in hot Massawa in 1942...)