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    Alternate weapons of mass destruction

    With the world teetering on a bit of a brink at the moment, this has made me think about alternative WMDs - beyond the triad we are all aware of in OTL: nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. Is there any alternative that could cause a mass casualty event in a @? And while today we are...
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    The Stanley brothers

    Interesting points of departure for alternate politicians... In 1938 Oliver Stanley and Edward, Lord Stanley, made history by becoming the first brothers to serve in the UK Cabinet. Lord Stanley would die within a year at 44 and Oliver Stanley, after wartime service directing military...
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    Spiro Agnew

    Inexperienced politician, effective right wing campaigner and law and order messenger, Spiro Agnew resigned 9 months after his second swearing in and 10 months before his boss, President Nixon, was forced to resign as well. Pushed from office by evidence of corruption and kickbacks received from...
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    Cost of ethnic policies

    I have recently, it seems, become the last person in my friendship group to watch The Devil Next Door on Netflix. A sobering watch. One of my friends asked me a question that stumped me - on the cost of the Holocaust. How much in men and materiel did it cost to commit that genocide? It got...
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    The Stanley’s

    There’s something very alternative Prime Ministerial about Oliver Stanley, and of course there’s the great story of him and his brother, Edward, Lord Stanley, serving in the cabinet together in OTL. And through their paternal line, they were related to Earl of Derby, thrice PM in the mid 19th C...
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    Last head of state to lead troops...

    My understanding is that the last British King to lead troops into battle was George II at Dettingen in 1743. However, I think Albert I of Belgium fought on the Western Front in WW1. What’s the latest head of state that could lead troops into battle? King George VI could have sat on a...
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    Anti ICBM treaty

    With a nuclear treaty making the news for the last few weeks it got me thinking about a few things - in particular arms control treaties. Would be interested in views on a treaty outlawing the use of ICBMs in the 1950s and result this may have on a Cold War and the development of space flight...
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    American space flight without Kennedy

    Perhaps Nixon beats him in 60, or Johnson somehow wins at the Convention, or he meets an assassins bullet sooner - what if Kennedy never has the opportunity to propose landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth. How does the US space programme develop? Just how critical is Kennedy?
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    My Grandfather's Letters

    Yesterday (14 August) was the anniversary of my Taid - my maternal grandfather, dying. We sorted out his house and his papers soon after he died but we were moving house at the time so a lot of his things - particularly copies of his letters, ended up in tea chests and box files. My parents are...
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    Nuclear weapons without WW2

    As we all know the first use of nuclear weapons was when atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end WW2. While atomic weapons were discussed prewar my understanding is that respective research programmes were set up and obviously intensified due to the nature of the...
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    Battleship names

    The Wikipedia page for the King George V class battleship indicates that: Prince of Wales was planned as King Edward VIII, Duke of York as Anson Anson as Jellicoe Howe as Beatty If KEVIII hadn't abdicated before the class was completed, I would assume that she would have become the lead ship...
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    Alternate energy

    In the 1960s, the U.K. Gas industry underwent a wholesale change as manufactured town gas was replaced by natural gas from the North Sea and elsewhere for heating homes and businesses. This necessitated a nationwide conversion programme in many respects - - a national transmission system to...
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    Tizard Mission

    The cavity magnetron Radar Jet engines Tube Alloys VT Fuse Self sealing tanks Gyroscopic gunsights etc etc etc If there's no war is there no Tizard Mission? If there's no Tizard mission, what happens to these developments? What does it mean for Britain? USA? Technology? Or is...
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    Singapore Strategy

    Bear with me on this one. I'm working, slowly, on a timeline that includes no European war in the 1940s (though thanks to the pod and the reason for the lack of a war, rearmament is pretty equivalent to OTL) but a far eastern one that starts with the Japanese coveting British possessions and...
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    More Vanguard's

    Quick one In lieu of WW2, but a continuing rearmament process: The Royal Navy is building Lion class Battleships, but wants to get as many effective hulls at sea as possible as quickly as possible, in fear of being outnumbered by Germany and Japan. Vanguard is built using guns in...
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    Post War UK financial situation

    A bit of a niche one here but bear with me. In 1946 USA lent UK $3.7bn ($57bn today) and wrote off lend lease payments of $650mn. This money was intended to support overseas expenditure and activities. HMG could either construct the New Jerusalem promised by Atlee, or continue funding its...
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    Something I thought (and maybe dreamed)?

    I’m not sure what this is. In the last couple of months I have read FDR biog, Nixonland, lots on WW2, all while continuing to marvel at the disfunctionality of the US political system. I guess this was slightly inspired by Jon Huntsman Jr too. I blundered upon speeches of his from 2012 and his...
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