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  1. 28 Days Later - Death of a Nation

    We don't see the rage infected drink - I doubt they'll be opening water bottles but it's possible that the infected are drinking water from readily available sources when in a dormant state.

  2. 28 Days Later - Death of a Nation

    Hell, maybe ITTL the reason Britain fell so fast was that the British Army was still using SA-80A1s (they don't work).

  3. 28 Days Later - Death of a Nation

    An excellent film would be a '28 Seconds Later' prequel documenting the events described on the first night of the outbreak by TTLs author. Better yet, an HBO miniseries documenting the fall of Britain.

  4. 28 Days Later - Death of a Nation

    I should add, nothing I've said is meant to be a criticism of @kspence92's excellent timeline, just some observations I came up with after rewatching the original film a couple of days back. As for the Trident submarines, here's an idea: a desperate British government could have used them as...

  5. 28 Days Later - Death of a Nation

    That's a fair enough take. I just figure with enough Firepower and fortifications it's possible to kill all the infected attacking any given position. Some of the weapons used in the sequel would also be immensely effective, although they did not exist in the UK's arsenal in 2002; Napal lm and...

  6. 28 Days Later - Death of a Nation

    I suppose the hunkering down idea depends on the intelligence of the infected. If everybody is at home, doors locked and barricaded, curtains closed, then the infected have no way of knowing which flats and houses have victims in them. Are they going to break down the doors and barricades of...

  7. 28 Days Later - Death of a Nation

    I hope I'm not too late to bump this thead with a couple of observations. 1) What would have happened to the patrolling Trident Submarine when the UK fell? I Believe it would depend on what Blair wrote in his 'Letters of Last Resort', but the Royal Navy's boomers by all accounts do not have...

  8. Seven Days to the River Rhine: the Third World War - a TL

    On the subject of Pershing IIs, if they could reach Moscow they'd be a damn good weapon for a decapitation strike - 5kt warheads on the Defence Ministry and the Kremlin cpuld plausibly kill the Soviet leadership within a few minutes of launch, which would buy time for the Tridents and MX...

  9. Seven Days to the River Rhine: the Third World War - a TL

    Possibly not, but its more justifiable than simply targeting the city in its own right. The KGB Station and the airport are just examples. At the end of the day, if Russia or the USSR was to launch a nuclear strike on American cities, there is no way the US would not respond against similar...

  10. Seven Days to the River Rhine: the Third World War - a TL

    FYI. The SIOP and OPLAN-8010 reportedly contain a number of selected and limited strike plans, and four Major Attack Options or MAOs. The Major Attack Options would probably look something like this: MAO-1: Counterforce attack on Russian/Soviet nuclear forces. MAO-2: Counterforce attack...

  11. Seven Days to the River Rhine: the Third World War - a TL

    O It's probably as much about pre-war laws than post-war ones. At the end of the day, it is illegal to deliberately target cities in their own right with any weapons, let alone nuclear ones. So the planners who draft these plans would be comitting a crime if they drafted an operational war plan...

  12. Seven Days to the River Rhine: the Third World War - a TL

    Something worth noting is that even in the most extreme scenarios under SIOP (now OPLAN-8010) is that the US does NOT do city-killing. While the Russians might have targeted coties in their own right, the US would target war-sustaining industries within those cities. For example, if the...

  13. Seven Days to the River Rhine: the Third World War - a TL

    I'm enjoying this TL. The problem with tactical nuclear weapons is that it's essentially impossible to effectively deploy them when each use has to be authorised at the NCA level. AFAIK, back in the day, NATO would have approved tactical nuclear weapons usage at the political level and then...

  14. WI: 1995 Nuclear War between Russia and United States

    Fair point, I haven't found any other sources.

  15. WI: 1995 Nuclear War between Russia and United States

    In this case that isn't true. Russian military radars detected a launch from Norway. The Russian high command believed that it was an SLBM from a boomer off of the Norwegian coastline, probably being used as an EMP* as part of a first strike. This wasn't just a case of a crazy president getting...

  16. Which Cold War POTUS would've done best in a Hot War?

    Not my area of expertise, but H.W. Bush seems pretty level-headed. He appears to be the outlier in the list of Republican POTUS's since Gerald R. Ford. In a conventional war, Reagan in 1984-86 (after he'd watched the day after) would have been a charismatic leader who could have inspired...

  17. Alt-History Aftermath Scenarios Implied by Media

    I've been trying to write a fanfic with that setting. In the end, we have Jimmy Prescott on death row, the Sheriff's Department declared a criminal enterprise and most of its members doing life for their roles in the kidnappings and murders, the town of Drisking basically abandoned after then...

  18. WI Actual UN Safe Zones (i.e. Srebrenica)

    IIRC, it was a combination of negligence and apathy on the part of the American, British and French high command that allowed Srebenica. Six times in the days running up to the massacre, including twice on the day, Dutchbat requested air support. Those requests were denied.

  19. WI Actual UN Safe Zones (i.e. Srebrenica)

    There were instances of UN troops taking stands successfully: the Royal Welch Fusiliers at Gorzade, for example. But, tragically, to get actual force in place to really protect the safe zones, it would take a massacre. If the Dutch tool a stand at Srebenica, CAS would be provided the moment...

  20. WI: September 11 attacks occur in 1981?

    Who exactly is responsible in this scenario?
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