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  1. An NFL what if...

    Erm...who's he going to throw to? I wonder how well he'll do in a non-West Coast offense - and in fact, the West Coast offense will never catch on the way it did. Steve Deberg was a good quarterback, but I don't see him leading the Niners to the titles they gained in '81 and '84, which will...

  2. Hey, it's an American Civil War POD!

    Because we don't have enough of them already, I decided to throw this out there. At the Battle of Chancellorsville, Robert E. Lee's army was undermanned compared to its normal strength due to the fact that 15,000 men under James Longstreet were in southern Virginia seeking to eliminate the...

  3. French Jerusalem

    Well, that's strange. The most interesting thing will be the reactions of the Arabs to this plan. According to the book, were they consulted regarding this alternate version? I think that might be the most interesting thing. Presumably the French, meanwhile, would have a more open...

  4. French Jerusalem

    I would presume that the area of Palestine is, as with the Sykes-Picot Agreement, intended to be internationally-controlled. The Agreement spelled out that the area in question was to be dealt with thus: I think what you're looking at there is something similar. Edit: I'd speculate...

  5. No Internet Developed Either By Gore Or Anyone Else?

    Gridley's right. It's just too useful a system to go undeveloped. But presuming it does, the effects on daily life would be too immense to calculate. Access to news would be limited, and events would develop much less rapidly. Protests such as the ones in Iran in 2009 or recently elsewhere...

  6. Internet with a surviving Soviet Union

    I'd expect it to be much more limited - access to computers would probably be limited to an academic context, so there'd be fewer people on their internet. This would probably lead to a much more close-knit community based on shared experiences, rather than the freely-flowing information and...

  7. Why was Constantinople so hard to Siege?

    Heck, with some noteworthy exceptions, the navy was in pretty bad shape ever since about the time the Macedonian Dynasty ran out in the mid-11th century.

  8. Why was Constantinople so hard to Siege?

    As long as the Byzantines had naval superiority and crop-growing regions out of the campaign area, they could supply themselves from the sea, due to the massive harbor area. So yes, it was the presence of very strong walls and a seaborne logistical system in conjunction with each other.

  9. Maximum Cold War nuclear war

    If it's that bad, small Pacific and Caribbean islands might be the only places to emerge totally unscathed. Everyone else could be plausibly targeted as a threat/ally of the enemy, and the warheads exist to hit them all. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (good name for a rock band!) would be...

  10. Maximum Cold War nuclear war

    Considering how much of the world was divided between client states of the superpowers, I'd say that the Non-Aligned Movement would be most likely to survive. I don't know the year-by-year membership of that organization, but presumably everyone not a member would be a priority target. Every...

  11. Challenge: Red-Orange

    The US, especially its naval commanders, still looked askance at the UK on a regular basis up to the point where we directly allied with them. Much of the American military establishment was unsatisfied with the idea of Lend-Lease precisely because they found the British to be not particularly...

  12. WWIII in 1949 which UK cities get nuked

    Depends where the nuclear facilities are. If they're in, say, Kazakhstan, the United States bomber forces should be unable to reach them until 1948-49, when the B-50 and then the B-36 are introduced. Add to that the fact that the nuclear facilities are likely to be one of the few locations in...

  13. Sports WI: Michael Jordan doesnt retire in 93

    Space Jam would never be made, and my childhood would be the poorer for it.

  14. WWIII in 1949 which UK cities get nuked

    Maybe possibly. I know they had five by the end of 1950, so they might be able to have three by the end of 1949 if they concentrate enormous resources on it, especially if the war broke out before 1949 and they've been working on the nuclear program as a side project - though they'd have...

  15. WWIII in 1949 which UK cities get nuked

    So does the war begin before 1949 and the nuking occur in that year, or does the war begin in 1949 and the nuking occur at some later date? Because... what Macragge1 says is accurate if the nuking is in 1949 and the Soviets are using Tu-4 bombers. If it's at a later date, the Soviets...

  16. WWIII in 1949 which UK cities get nuked

    Good points if we're assuming an air attack. One possibility that the military planners on both sides considered was a suicide attempt by a submarine or some sort of freighter carrying a nuke. This makes Portsmouth a viable target once more, in any case. Still, I like the suggestion of either...

  17. WWIII in 1949 which UK cities get nuked

    Ignoring the fact that the Soviets had only a minimal chance of getting the bombs to the UK in 1949 and probably didn't have three anyway, I'd expect that Portsmouth and either Manchester or Birmingham would be targeted. I don't know the specifics of Soviet targeting strategy at this point, but...

  18. York/Lancaster

    I support Lancaster. Henry VII is awesome, and I've got a bad opinion of Richard III. Perhaps I'm biased by the Tudor legacy and Shakespeare's histories, but overall York is just less interesting. Plus as I understand it the Lancastrians had the stronger legal claim to the throne after...

  19. December 28th, 1941: The Day of Infamy

    This looks like it has some potential. I think I'll subscribe.

  20. No Panzer IV

    Possibly. You're sacrificing offensive utility due to loss of a traversable turret, and sacrificing a lot of firepower in the anti-tank role. On the other hand, I think it would lead to faster development of a Panther-like tank, maybe one that's easier to mass-produce due to need for a...
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