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Toying with the notion which I don't know is plausible, but can be a good point of difference: Having an independent Scotland's head of government still be called a "First Minister" and not a "Prime Minister" Thoughts?

Axis victory collaborator air force.... (or a Ju-88 in postwar French service)

The second All Union novel, A Period of Cheating, is now out!.

Yeah, it's not like it's the headquarters of the nuclear command or anything, oh wait

I actually followed this theory (having heard of it earlier) for my most important AH flags in All Union and went a step farther by having them actually be intentionally bland/mediocre to deter their use as nationalist rallying symbols. (The lowlight is the Independent Republic of Romania, a...

Reviving this with something I just found/came up with: Ways (including giant vaccuum flasks) to make liquid oxygen for rockets either more storable or faster-filling, which were considered OTL. For launch vehicles it wasn't nearly as crucial, but for ICBMs it's essential. A variant of the...

My stepfather once had a Farsi cover album of Frank Sinatra songs.

For me it was the xenomorph-koalas. Yeah, the entire "story" is nothing but a description of an entire people that are inherently monstrous and cruel and sadistic in the extreme even when it makes absolutely no sense and even though a single actually human culture would have sent the edgelords...

I also think (and may write another post either here or on my own blog) that this can apply to variations on character names. Like a common fantasy trope of taking a real name and slightly altering it actually actually fits with linguistic variations on real names...

Meanwhile a Canadian team has not won a Stanley cup since mid-1993. Afterwards Canadians won champions in the American leagues of baseball (Blue Jays, fall 1993), and basketball (Raptors, 2019)

The Dream A biography of Nigerian international footballer Hakeem Olajuwon, one of the greatest goalkeepers to play the sport.

My answers are: "I can't possibly know" and "it's irrelevant to counterfactual/alternate history fiction,"

Not surprising given how nearly all Vietnamese-Americans are descended from southern exiles.

In my All Union series, this is basically how it goes, with them wolfing down computers/chips from Taiwan (counter to the PRC) and India (traditionally friendly and tied) in particular. It's a soft AH, but I still think it makes a lot more intuitive sense then them suddenly jumping twenty years...

OTL nuclear terminology can get a little like this too. Like the actual atomic explosive part of a bomb/warhead is called the "Physics Package", and I could see that, like "tank", being a code name that turns into an overall title.

Still's better than TNO.

Now that's a dystopia, having a federal government centered in New Jersey! (spoken by a New Yorker)

Philadelphia as the capital would be interesting.

Gravity bombs dropped by their existing aircraft (the Lansen at the start) and the proposed Saab 36, as well as the similarly papered 500 km range RB 330 high altitude cruise missile.

What if Switzerland and/or Sweden, two of the least controversial countries to attempt nuclear weapons, actually built and deployed them? They had very serious and substantive programs IOTL.