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    The Nearly Tales of Sport

    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)
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    Alternate Biography Titles: Lives that might have been

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

    My answers are: "I can't possibly know" and "it's irrelevant to counterfactual/alternate history fiction,"
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    Not surprising given how nearly all Vietnamese-Americans are descended from southern exiles.
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    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...
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    Alternate Technologies: A Nuke By Any Other Name

    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.
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    Still's better than TNO.
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    Alternate History General Discussion

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

    Philadelphia as the capital would be interesting.
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    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.
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    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.
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    Fiction Friction: Beloved Characters That Nearly Weren't

    My go-to example for this is Wolverine originally just being a minor Hulk villain.
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    WI : Ceaușescu's Romania develops its own nuclear weapons.

    A low-risk high-reward strategy for anyone is to probably just call the bluff and let them waste money on the (for all intents) fake nuclear program.
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    WI : Ceaușescu's Romania develops its own nuclear weapons.

    One thing I can see is the threat of a nuclear program as a sort of blackmail/leverage tool to get more money. Build something that's nuclear program-adjacent but doesn't actually require much in the way of money or technology (even if it's just a building of some kind), and go to everyone and...
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    WI : Ceaușescu's Romania develops its own nuclear weapons.

    OK, here's the thing about Libya's nuclear program: It was nowhere near anywhere even close to a functioning bomb. The only thing it did was make AQ Khan and his suppliers a lot of money. The program was as mismanaged and inept as the rest of the Gaddafi government, and I've heard that he...
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    AHC: Preserve animal-combat-based sports.

    Ok, reviving this after having done far too much research into formal dogfighting (at least in the American context, though most western places follow the same style/rules/legal issues), I can say that getting it to stay in public appeal is about as likely as Sea Lion succeeding. There's a...
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    Non-Trek Worldbuilding. Part 3: Early Star Wars.

    Didn't mention what I think is the biggest (pun partially intended) Dune inspiration for Star Wars: Vladimir Harkonnen to Jabba the Hutt as a big fat blob villain.
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    WI: Taiwan had nukes?

    China is comparably (even more) vulnerable to nuclear attack because its gigantic population is packed into the east. "Relatively Few" bombs in an American case means relatively few monster 1950s-60s bombs where the smallest are in the triple digit kilotons. It doesn't mean those from an...
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    WI : Ceaușescu's Romania develops its own nuclear weapons.

    There's a claim that Romania produced about 26 KG of Plutonium from the research reactor at Magurele and another claim that HEU (ie, weapons usable) was removed from it when it was decommissioned. However, since such claims need to be taken with a bulk freighter of salt, I looked at the...
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    John le Carre, a Trade Secret. Part 3

    If that happened it would not be surprising in the slightest.
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