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  1. Scenario For Combat Aircraft To Be Available During the U.S. Civil War?

    I've been interested in doing a highly illustrated book where the American Civil War (1861-65) had a couple of hundred heavier than air combat aircraft available on both sides along with a substantial number of combat balloons and battle blimps. Given that the time between the run up to the...

  2. Maximum Number of Nuclear Attacks That Leaves Your Way of Life Largely Unchanged?

    Inspired by the "minimum number to destroy civilization" thread. This assumes you not near the targeted areas. Assume three quarters of attacks are airbursts against cities or military bases in close proximity to major cities. Further assume the smallest yields used are 50 kilotons while...

  3. Midway What If? Massive Surface Engagement

    Most Battle of Midway what if's focus on the Japanese doing something different and smarter with their carrier based forces or the Americans not getting so lucky, but what if at Midway after the loss of the four Japanese carriers, Yamamoto had gone with his first instinct and sent his...

  4. What If? The Wright Brothers Never Flew?

    I've always been fascinated by some of the claims about experimenters who supposedly few an airplane successfully BEFORE the Wright's. http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/who-flew-first-290750/ I've wondered. If for some reason the Wright brothers abandoned their work for...

  5. How Many Would Be Killed In An All Out Accidental Nuclear Exchange?

    Supposedly in the 1990s, to help avert the danger of an accidental nuclear exchange by the U.S. and Russia, Russia agreed to target all their ICBMs on the Arctic while the U.S. targeted all their ICBMs on the ocean (Pacific I think) this of course was largely meaningless as ICBMS still...

  6. The National Basketball Association If "The Punch" Had Never Happened?

    During an on court brawl (just as it started) between the visiting Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Lakers, Laker Kermit Washington hit Rocket star Rudy Tomjonavich with a hideously damaging punch that nearly killed him. Infamous punch Kermit Washington punching Rudy Tomjanovich on...

  7. What If the American SST Had Not Been Canceled?

    As everyone probably knows the United States was hoping to build a Supersonic Transport in the 1960s to compete directly with the British/French Concorde (and it turns out the Soviet TU-144). Neither the Concorde nor the TU-144 came close to being remotely economically viable. There...

  8. What If? Gilligans Island Renewed?

    Gilligans Island was a profoundly silly half hour comedy but in the 1970s thanks to syndication reruns it became immensely more popular and to this day is considered a cultural icon. When the show was canceled after the third season it was considered a big surprise to all the cast members...

  9. What If 9-11 Attacks Took Place Exactly One Year Earlier?

    I've heard this is considered by lots of Clinton and Gore staffers to be one of the great "what ifs" they dwell on. Same attacks on Sept. 11th, 2000 instead of 2001. 1) Surge of support for the Clinton Admin. results in easy Al Gore victory over George W. Bush. 2) President Clinton...

  10. Best Vehicles For A Post EMP Attack Or Nuclear Attack?

    I've been looking at scenarios for the federal govt. preparing for an EMP attack or small scale nuclear attack that has the effect of knocking out the electronic ignition systems of millions of vehicles across the United States. What if the U.S. govt. decided to prepare for this in some way...

  11. John Erik Hexum Lives

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John-Erik_hexum Okay his death was an exercise in complete idiocy and he was only active for two years or so. But I remember Voyagers and Cover Up (the series where he stupidly shot himself while playing with a gun loaded with blanks). He had a real charm...

  12. 1981 NFC Championship Game Dallas 30, San Francisco 28

    Everyone remembers this game for the famous Joe Montana to Dwight Clark TD pass with 51 seconds left known forever as "The Catch". What most forget is that Dallas still had 51 seconds left and only needed a field goal On the ensuing possession, WR Drew Pearson caught a long pass from QB...

  13. Anyone Ever Read "Children of Apollo"?

    It is basically, what if after Apollo 11, President Nixon read a CIA report that indicated the race to the moon was straining the Soviet economy? So instead of gutting the space program, Nixon doubles down and dramatically continues and expands Apollo to provoke the Soviets into wasting...

  14. Domestic Political & Global Geopolitical Situation 20 Years After WW3

    I've always been fascinated by the concept of a Third World War in 1990 or 1991 between the U.S/NATO and Soviet Union plus (at least) North Korea invading South Korea. Assuming it would be a variation of the Sir John Hackett (only a handful of nuclear weapons used), Red Storm Rising, and The...

  15. In An End of Cold War Nuclear War-What Percentage of Nuclear Weapons Would Work?

    I was reading the book "The Cold War At Sea" and something caught my eye. It referred to the first deployment of the Polaris sea launched ballistic nuclear missiles. It said that 10 years later, the U.S. discovered that fully 75% of the nuclear warheads aboard the Polaris missiles would NOT...

  16. What If: No "Rural Purge" In 1970-71?

    In the beginning of the 1970s decade, CBS network, reportedly after Fred Silverman got annoyed that some in the business were snidely referring to CBS as the "Country Broadcasting System" ordered the cancelation of a huge number of successful television shows with a rural or western theme...

  17. World War Three Estimated Death Tolls?

    I know, if there was a global nuclear war, the death toll would be from between 100 million to 1 billion depending on who you ask, what day of the week it is, and which way the wind is blowing. Which just proves that no one really has any idea. But what about the following nonnuclear war...

  18. If the Cold War Had Not Ended, What Would The U.S. Military Look Like in 2009?

    If the Berlin Wall had not come down in 1989 and the Soviet Union dissolved two years later, in all likelihood what would the overall size, force structure, and weapons used by the U.S. military (and allied for that matter) look like in all likelihood in 2009 about two decades later.

  19. Where Do I Get Maps-Atlas of World War Three

    I've been setting up an alternate timeline where Romanov outmanuevers Gorbache for Soviet leadership in the mid 1980s and instead of letting the Germans pull down the Berlin Wall in 1989, the U.S.S.R. basically goes Tianeman (mispelled) on them. This leads to a steady rise in tensions in...

  20. What if the Terex Titan 33-19 entered production.

    The Terex Titan 33-19 dump truck was the largest capacity dump truck in the world when unveiled in 1974. It could carry 350 tons of material. Nearly twice what the next largest dump truck could carry. It would later spend more than a decade working in a mine in Canada. It is now an outside...
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