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  1. Timelines with different second world wars?

    What are some good timelines that have a second great war that is fairly different from our own, at least in Europe? For example, are there any timelines where the Central Powers win the Great War, only to face some sort of revanchist Entente down the line? Or maybe one wherein Germany never...

  2. AHC: Earliest possible atomic weapons?

    Is it at all possible, with a post-1900 POD, for a significantly (5 years at the least) earlier development and test of an atomic bomb? Rules: It needs to be a fission/fusion device. No "dirty bombs". Pre-1900 PODs allowed if absolutely necessary, but try your hardest to have it after the...

  3. What would happen in a 3-way WWII?

    What if the Allies do something stupid like Operation Pike, and somehow get themselves entangled in a war with the Axis AND the Soviets before mid-1941? I know that it won't become a "Stalin & Hitler become BFFs and CONQUER ZE WORLD!" type scenario, but I find the potential ramifications of...

  4. When is the earliest possible manned spaceflight?

    With a POD of 1900, what is the earliest point that you think mankind could leave Earth's atmosphere? It doesn't have to be a full orbit, an Alan Shepard style "up and down" mission would suffice.

  5. WI: A much, much worse "9/11" in January 1995...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bojinka_plot ITTL, let's assume that... 1. There's no apartment fire exposing the whole plan just days before its set to occur. 2. Khalid Sheik Mohammed and co. are able to recruit a few dozen hijackers in the preceding months. So, for all intents and...

  6. Germany's allies in a Nazi Victory TL?

    What would've become of Germany's allies in the event of a Nazi victory in the east? Specifically, what would become of the Central European states (Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia & Croatia) afterwards? I find the last three particularly interesting, as they are made up of Slavic peoples...

  7. WI: The Nazis don't alienate oppressed Soviets?

    Yes, I know it's extremely unlikely/implausible (Though I won't go so far as to call it ASB - It seems like that term pretty much means "I disagree" these days), but I'd like to discuss the possible effects without debating too much on how we get here. When the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union...

  8. AHC: Turn the "Sixties" into a full-blown revolution...

    Is there any way for the social unrest in the 1960s to spiral out of control into a more powerful, even violent revolution? Essentially, turn the counterculture into what "the man" was afraid of in the worst case scenario? Could it go far enough to split the U.S. up, or result in the government...

  9. WI: Tunguska meteoroid explodes over city?

    In 1908, an explosion equal to around 10-15mt (About as powerful as the strongest H-bomb detonated by the U.S.) occurred in Siberia, obliterating forests within an 830 mile radius. The most common theory as to the cause is that a large meteoroid or comet exploded about 3-6 miles above the...

  10. AHC: Non-Interventionist U.S. after WWII

    Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to somehow keep the U.S. from intervening abroad during the Cold War. I'm not asking for isolationism, just no military intervention (Preferably no CIA tomfoolery either :D). I'd like the P.O.D. to be around 1945, but seeing as how this is a...

  11. WI: UK/France attack while Germany is in Poland?

    From what I understand, Hitler pretty much left Germany's western frontier wide open during the Blitzkrieg against Poland, but there was only one sort of half-baked offensive by the French before we got the "Phony War". What were the reasons for the relative inaction by the British/French, and...

  12. WI: Operation Pike was carried out?

    I've been a reader here for a while, but I've only just started posting, so sorry if this has been covered before... In the early days of WWII, especially after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and the Soviet invasion of Finland, the British viewed Stalin and the U.S.S.R. as an ally of Hitler and...
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