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    Alternate Technologies: A Nuke By Any Other Name

    Hitler would have called it the "Jüdische Physik Bomb."
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    Alternate Technologies: A Nuke By Any Other Name

    Fairly sure if the Wehrmacht had used nuclear weapons first, the A-bomb would have been called the K-bomb (kernkraftbomben)
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    Alternate Technologies: A Nuke By Any Other Name

    "United American Republic Air Fleet deploys Teller-Super"
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    Alternate Technologies: A Nuke By Any Other Name

    There's never one specific term for any kind of weapon (eg artillery/howitzer/M777 etc) There's always a technical name for a weapon (nuclear warhead/primary), a manufacturers name (Python), the operators designation (W34, Lulu, Hotpoint, ASTOR, Peter) and a colloquial name (atomic bomb). The...
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    Alternate Technologies: A Nuke By Any Other Name

    I'm surprised that Dune gets mentioned, but 'stoneburner' doesn't.
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    AndrewH's Test Thread

    Chairperson of the Third International 8th World Congress (1947): Alexandra Kollontai 9th World Congress (1955): Jacques Duclos 10th World Congress (1965): Karl Schirdewan 11th World Congress (1975): 12th World Congress (1985): 13th World Congress (1995): 14th World Congress (2005): 15th World...
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    [ASB] Sea level drops by 50 metres in the early 20th century

    It's a bonkers idea whenever you set it, and it will cause as much misery and death as a new ice age. The idea that existing population levels/communities/nations/empires will survive this inexplicable ecological disaster (where has seawater actually gone?) is implausible. Why would they?
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    [ASB] Sea level drops by 50 metres in the early 20th century

    Where does the money/labour/machinery come from to build these new dockyards, now that world trade has collapsed, fishing and agriculture are unviable, and people are starving? It's a gradual extinction level event. Most of the world's population will die off before anything can be done, like...
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    [ASB] Sea level drops by 50 metres in the early 20th century

    How do ship-owners/ship builders know where to anchor their ships, without knowing how much the sea level will drop? The tide will go out, and not come back. Also: Scapa Flow - gone. The number of viable roadsteads and anchorages will decline, and become too shallow for the draughts of laden...
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    [ASB] Sea level drops by 50 metres in the early 20th century

    How do the ships in the docks and slipways at London, Southampton, Portsmouth, Dover, Cardiff, Bristol, Hull, Liverpool, Dublin, Queenstown, Middlesbrough, Glasgow etc get to it, however? On wheels?
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    [ASB] Sea level drops by 50 metres in the early 20th century

    Let's be optimistic and put the sea level dropping by just 49 metres. I think the Imperial Japanese Navy will be walking to work over stagnant marshland. Good luck to 'em!
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    [ASB] Sea level drops by 50 metres in the early 20th century

    Well, that butterflies away the Russo-Japanese War.... Oh shit, I'm getting reports that the Japanese fleet is stranded, and there's a land bridge between Sakhalin and Hokkaido, it's back on like Donkey Kong.
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    WI: No Vietnam War?

    Lee H. Oswald only has to miss, for LBJ's role in the Vietnam to be negligible.
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    WI: No Vietnam War?

    JFK or Eisenhower, more likely. There will always be a Vietnam war, which the North/Viet Minh will win, the USA just won't be involved, or at least not the extent where 58,220 US military personnel are killed in combat.
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    [ASB] Sea level drops by 50 metres in the early 20th century

    In the case of the Thames, nope. Location Limiting Depth Millwall Cutting 3.5 metres Millwall Bridge 3.5 metres Glengall Bridge Cutting 3.5 metres Heron Quay Canal 2.4 metres Bellmouth Passage 4.4 metres Blackwall Cutting 9.6 metres Eastern Access Bridge 9.6 metres Poplar...
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    [ASB] Sea level drops by 50 metres in the early 20th century

    The Solent is 46 metres deep, Portsmouth shallower still, the Clyde just 9 metres, so that's the end of Britain as a major seafaring power. Japan also. Britain manufactured 60% of the world's shipping fleets as late as 1913, and now these shipyards, all on river estuaries, have been left high...
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    [ASB] Sea level drops by 50 metres in the early 20th century

    Increasing desertification, decreased rainfall, loss of fishing grounds, a coastal ecocide.
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    Extra points if you call it the Seversky P-44 Thunderbolt.
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    A prosperous East Anglia?

    More Hanseatic League ports in Stanglia, rather than just Bishop's Lynn?
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    Ramifications of an Allied Victory in a 1938 War?

    The pretext for decolonisation (the inability to defend your overseas colonies) disappears, but the economic problems of Empire persist. France will hang onto Algeria much longer. Also, Neville Chamberlain would die shortly after achieving victory, which leaves an interesting choice for who...
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