0. The US is pounded by a KT sized asteroid in 1601 and the resulting ecological devastation causes either actual human extinction or so close to it as to make no difference. Any surviving communities will be living in small, isolated pockets and surviving or growing only very slowly.
Define better. In what ways has the US political system itself hampered it's ability to effectively govern in ways that cannot be sufficiently explained by other problems (such as a difference in culture causing greater acceptance/rejection of social policies if social changes of the 20th...
What happened to the german population in the area? There were nearly 250,000 of them in the region at the time but they would probably have something to say in a mostly-peaceful breakup of A-H.
Basically, yeah. It wouldn't take that large of a change to the constitution to do really, perhaps an amendment or a part of the core document explaining that the constitution didn't just list what the government did, it listed the only thing that the government did. That would make the...
Ah, so the progress of the war's going to be one that looks good for the Soviets right up until it doesn't then. It's a highly risky strategy trying to stop the Axis flat like that, but if the NKVD learned about how dangerously low on reserves some parts of the German military ran after the War...
Less risky and probably easier would be trying to sabotage things around the Manhattan project. It isn't and cannot be completely resource independent, so things like delays in recieving fissile material could slow down the project. It wouldn't be a killer, but in the race to the bomb every day...
He can probably carve off some of the African and Middle Eastern colonies, but Britain is nowhere near demolished enough that their empire could be completely gutted like that. You'd need Axis troops marching down the streets of London before you could dictate terms like that without being...
I'm more worried about the lesson it would teach the world if it doesn't avert the second war. Germany tried the nation-building route and it backfired spectacularly, if there is a war. The lesson there should be obvious, if you have to tear down another country in a total war then be so...
That's precisely it, if I followed the trail of events properly. The plants here weren't for power, but were plutonium breeders and fission bomb assembly plants.
I believe the tally before the bombing was three complete weapons and several at various stages of completion. The bombing was to...
The Chinese nuclear team does come off as hilariously incompetent here, but I kind of think that was the point. They went straight for fusion devices without even building a single fission bomb first, we haven't heard anything about the Chinese nuclear program before, and while there has been...