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It seems irrational to me that the Eastern Bloc leadership maintained such large conventional forces after around 1970 or so. Was the Eastern Bloc committed to such high military spending due to inertia, fears of an invasion (however irrational or rational), fear of a military coup, or some...

I might have missed something but which nation is trying to recon hispaniola and why?

I'm surprised Germany needs more power generation plants considering the population losses from the pest. Couldn't they use Belgian, French, and Dutch surplus capacity? Also, did the British develop nuclear power plants ittl?

Is the Egon character supposed to be Egon Krenz? Also, are there still immune people in the UK and Ireland? Why hasn’t anyone rescued the immune in the various islands? Do they still spread the plague?

I wonder if this timeline will ever get to FTL travel? Could you ever do a dbwif the pandemic hadn’t destroyed britain?

Is the US going to try to catch up to the russians and germans?

So is New Zealand's head of state vacant or is it some distant relative of the Windsors?

Did the British socialists impose socialism on their African colonies? Are the falkland islands still inhabited by British? Did Australia and New Zealand declare themselves republics?

If the Russian government is seriously contemplating war, you’d think they would develop a super extensive Civil Defense program. After all, Russia is so spread out that providing relatively modest shelters to everyone would be expensive but would ensure a lot of people survive. (Not that that...

I’d definitely be interested in the report’s conclusions!

Is the Raisa character Otls Raisa Grobachev?

Could the Ukraine develop nukes? I wonder if there will be a Donbas conflict ittl.

Is NPP an orion drive? I am surprised there is no effort to restrict such highly polluting propulsion technologies to space.

Did the british communists keep around the monarchy? if so, why? what happened to the nordic countries due to the ice age? did the queen live through the outbreak? is there still a british remmanant somewhere?

@Mike D Would the Indian version use the harrier or soviet vtol aircraft?