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Post by lordroel on Nov 23, 2021 4:53:41 GMT
That, and the size of weapons, radar and nuclear plant. So is nuclear waste more easy to get ride of than OTL. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Nov 23, 2021 5:27:24 GMT
The worst of it is collected, stored, then transported into space and fired into the sun.
In general, a lot of plutonium and uranium is used up in nuclear warhead manufacturing.
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Post by lordroel on Nov 23, 2021 14:51:37 GMT
The worst of it is collected, stored, then transported into space and fired into the sun. I do hope the sun does not mind being used as a burning pit. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Nov 23, 2021 15:56:41 GMT
July 2: Premiere of Dad's Army, a respectful semi-comedic television series on the experiences of the Home Guard in the Second World War, on BBC1. - 
July 3: The British Army takes delivery of its first armoured trains since the Second World War. - That seems somewhat redudnant as what can they do when restricted to tracks? Or is it used internally for something like shipping nuclear items or other special materials around the country?
July 5: Round-the-world yachtsman Alec Rose is greeted by a crowd of 200,000 as he completes his voyage, sailing home into Portsmouth Harbour. - Remember this
July 9: Enoch Powell wins the second round of the Conservative Party leadership contest and is formally elected as Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition. - That is going to be interesting. I know there are a lot less coloured people than OTL in Britain but if he's as racist as OTL that will be a matter with the empire as well.
July 10: The Royal Navy introduces a dual purpose air-launched anti-ship/land attack version of the Hawker-Siddeley Paladin supersonic missile into experimental service with carrier-based Blackburn Buccaneers and Supermarine Excaliburs of the Grand Fleet. It is a smaller and shorter range weapon than the ship launched Paladin and the ground-based coastal defence missile still under development. -
July 13: Doctors in Hong Kong identify a new, highly virulent strain of influenza that displays alarming features of other diseases. - IIRC there was a serious outbreak of HK flu about this time so might be an OTL event but the last bit and the higher tech available here raises the possibility of something more sinister.
July 17: Local authorities are puzzled by the overnight appearance of a huge beanstalk in Bavaria; the plant is destroyed by Luftwaffe jets armed with incendiary and herbicidal missiles as a precaution shortly before noon. - 
July 18: Intelcorporation unveils the prototype of what it terms a 'microcomputerprocessor'. - July 20: The first running of the British Grand Prix on its new circuit at Silverstone, with Jim Clark narrowly defeating Graham Hill and Jackie Stewart, whilst Jack Brabham and Bruce McLaren rounded out the top five. - Well that's an heavy domination of the event by Brits and Imperials. Good to see Clark escaped his OTL fate.
July 21: Soviet cosmonauts begin assembly of a very large spacecraft in Earth orbit, closely monitored by the United States Space Force. - Another stepping up of the space race. July 26: The Home Office indicates that it will not pursue any relaxation of theatre censorship, despite the presentation of a large petition organised by the Royal National Theatre. -  July 28: A Swedish chef subdues a rabid roc during a cooking demonstration in Brussels with a fortuitously placed antique blunderbuss. -  That must have required a hell of a cooking pot. Or was the chief cooking an elephant and the roc tried to steal the meal?
July 29: Eighty-seven people are killed in the eruption of Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica. - Was this OTL?
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Steve, I've removed the items already covered, so here are the others: 1.) It is a different Dad's Army, with the same British comedic style, but a bit more of a respectful edge to the portrayal. 2.) Armoured trains are intended for Imperial deployment and for home defence patrols in the event of crisis. 3.) There did seem to be a fair few yachting events crop up around the late 1960s when I did the initial research. 4.) As mentioned earlier in the year, I don't think that he was a racialist in @ in the full sense of the term. He certainly is in a different situation and background of development of WW2-1968 here, so the same events aren't likely to come up. The formal Empire is changing quite quickly by this point; the difference between 1960 or 1961 when Sam was in Ashford and halfway through 1968 is quite large, even if it is on a different schedule than @. 5.) The air launched Paladin is of the same generation as sea skimmers like Gabriel/Harpoon/Exocet, but, as said, is supersonic, which complicates the defensive reaction time. 6.) It is a nasty variant of the the Hong Kong Flu of the year, but there will be some different outcomes due to earlier developments in medicine, particularly for influenza. 7.) The beanstalk incident is one of many of that type. 8.) Computer developments are more advanced and, like a Saturn V rocket taking off, seemed slow in the early 60s, but continued mounting in speed. Now we will see what happens. 9.) Historically, this period was heavily dominated by the British/Commonwealth types. Clark isn't the only one who avoids an untimely fate. 10.) This one is for a different exploratory purpose, but is notable for being the biggest *ship* built there, rather than a space station. 11.) There has been no basis for censorship to be relaxed, so the old regime continues. 12.) The roc had escaped from the Brussels Zoo and disrupted a presentation of his renowned oversized meatballs. 13.) The volcanic eruption was OTL. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Nov 26, 2021 17:11:00 GMT
August
August 1: London is flooded with troops and police in the aftermath of yesterday’s outrage, with security particularly high around Buckingham Palace and Parliament. Home Secretary James Callaghan announces an inquiry into how the attack was able to take place.
August 2: Commissioning of the Argentine super battleship Argentina in Buenos Aires. Nationalist Prime Minister Diego Sebastian de Rodriguez hails it as the most powerful ship in South America and, along with Argentina’s future aircraft carriers, new jet bombers, domestically produced tanks and her long range missile programme, are indications of het status as a true great power. Foreign observers note that he avoids the question of Argentina’s nuclear weapons in his expansive and rousing speech.
August 3: A paralysed boy is miraculously healed by a passing stranger at a travelling carnival in Oklahoma.
August 4: Australian Prime Minister Sir Edward Rogers announces to Parliament in Canberra that the Royal Australian Navy will order two new guided missile battlecruisers, the RAAF will procure 300 new long range air to surface missiles to equip their strike bombers defence and the Australian Army will form two new specialist regiments.
August 5: A coup attempt by elements of the Iraqi Army is ruthlessly put down by the Arab Legion.
August 6: Newcastle police detectives arrest Mary Bell, 11, and her neighbour, Norma Bell, 13, for the murder of a local three year old boy. The announcement is met by shock and outrage across the country, with some calling for the Office of the Witchfinder General to investigate.
August 7: Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York wins the Republican nomination for President, narrowly beating Governor Ronald Reagan of California by 1249 delegates to 1053, with Senator Thurston Ballard Morton of Kentucky selected unanimously as his running mate; President Kennedy's late re-entry into the race, although always perceived as possible, has turned the election from a winnable one to a long shot in the view of many Republicans. Rockefeller's victory is not welcomed by the increasingly strong conservative wing of the party.
August 8: A Soviet probe of the Saturnine moon of Iapetus apparently crashed after detecting signs and images of some sort of strange plant life.
August 9: The citizens of Vienna are horrified as the giant image of Count Dracula engages the infamous werewolf Lukos Bane in single combat in the night sky above the city.
August 10: The Middle East Journal, the area’s most popular English language newspaper, features a story on the Green Revolution and Agricultural Renaissance of Iraq, detailing how rainfall and fertility in Muthanna and Najaf Provinces now exceeds estimated conditions during the Mesopotamian Golden Age, over five and a half thousand years ago.
August 11: A gang of British master criminals steal $5 million in gold bullion from an armoured lorry in a daring raid in Turin, basing their plan upon a paralysation of city traffic in the manner of the infamous December 1956 Milan traffic jam, which allows them to make a spectacular escape in a trio of enchanted Austin Minis.
August 12: The US Army begins testing of a new, wrist mounted personal information device.
August 13: Famed halfling cook Michael Bunce becomes the first British chef to be awarded a coveted fifth Michelin star for his London restaurant Albion.
August 14: The Irish Office commissions a White Paper on Irish economic development in the concern that Ireland is lagging behind the other Home Countries in its performance; recent investments in Western Ireland are being held up as the general standard to be emulated.
August 15: An earthquake off the coast of Celebes sets off a tsunami that kills over 500 people.
August 16: The United States conducts test launch of three prototype strategic long range ballistic missiles in a single day, all of them equipped with the new Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicle warheads. The USN Solaris is launched from USS Theodore Roosevelt off the coast of Florida to a target range north of Ascension Island, the USAF Peacemaker from Vandenburg Air Force Base to Manus Island and the US Army Hercules from Fort Sill to Kwajelein.
August 17: The Wiener Zeitung carries a front page expose on covert KGB support of Czech and Slovak separatist organisations.
August 18: Vietnam: Six US and South Vietnamese divisions launch Operation Elmtree, a concentrated offensive against Viet Cong positions and operational zones in Darlac and Quang Duc Provinces, supported by extremely heavy airpower, artillery and dragonfire.
August 19: The Wholesome Poultry Act enters US law, establishing strict minimum standards for the inspection and quality of poultry.
August 20: USS Sea Devil fires a Mark 45 ASTOR atomic torpedo at an unidentified underwater contact in the Central Pacific, thinking that it was Godzilla, the Pacific Monster; subsequent investigations of the sonar record lead to the belief that the creature was a large kraken.
August 21: After meeting at a writer’s conference in London, noted New Zealand poet John Lennon spends a day with English music teacher and writer Paul McCartney in Hyde Park, beginning a long friendship and artistic collaboration. The event will later be commemorated in a charming film, A Day in the Life.
August 22: Pope Paul VI becomes the first Pontiff to visit South America, landing in Bogota, Colombia.Papal visit to Colombia
August 23: First test flight of a Soviet atomic airship powered by a lead cooled reactor over Siberia. The footage of the flight is played repeatedly by Soviet Central Television, with German rebroadcasts dubbing it Der Blei Zeppelin.
August 24: President John F. Kennedy is unanimously nominated as the Democratic candidate for the 1968 Presidential election.
August 25: General Abrams gives an expansive briefing on Saigon on the progress of the Vietnam War, declaring that the enemy has suffered at least 125,000 killed in the first half of 1968 and demonstrating how a combination of air strikes and ground interdiction have succeeded in reducing traffic on the Ho Chi Minh Trail by 70%. He states that this current counteroffensive stage will continue for up to 6 months, followed by a 12 month period of defensive consolidation, concluding with a confident statement: “The time when the enemy could win is long past and the period of deep war is now over.”
August 26: Eleven communist insurgents are executed in Rhodesian after being found guilty of treachery and rebellion. The ongoing Bush War along the northern and western border has recently seen a decrease in intensiry following the elimination of rebel base areas in the Congo by Commonwealth forces.
August 27: A special team of American doctors dispatched from the Centre for Disease Control to Hong Kong successfully cure severe cases of the Hong Kong Flu with an advanced new medicine.
August 28: Assassination of the United States Ambassador to Guatemala in a machine gun attack in Guatemala City.
August 29: Crown Prince Harald of Norway marries Princess Alexandra of Kent in Oslo.
August 30: The United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Network computer system becomes operational, connecting sixteen 'nodes' of advanced computing engines across universities and major corporations.
August 31: West Indian Test cricketer Garfield Sobers hits 6 sixes in an over for Nottinghamshire against Glamorgan, with the final hit seen flying out of the ground and bouncing into Swansea Bay.
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Post by lordroel on Nov 26, 2021 17:12:07 GMT
AugustAugust 2: Commissioning of the Argentine super battleship Argentina in Buenos Aires. Nationalist Prime Minister Diego Sebastian de Rodriguez hails it as the most powerful ship in South America and, along with Argentina’s future aircraft carriers, new jet bombers, domestically produced tanks and her long range missile programme, are indications of het status as a true great power. Foreign observers note that he avoids the question of Argentina’s nuclear weapons in his expansive and rousing speech. Has Brazil something to say about that. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Nov 26, 2021 17:15:34 GMT
“Your opinion is wrong! Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah! We’re better than you! Argentina smells!”
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Post by lordroel on Nov 26, 2021 17:17:06 GMT
“Your opinion is wrong! Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah! We’re better than you! Argentina smells!” So Brazil is ore is going to build a bigger ship to claim the title. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Nov 26, 2021 17:20:38 GMT
Brazil already has its own ships under construction in France, but they can’t really be altered to make them several metres longer or anything as petty as that. It isn’t a title, nor something for Brazil to really indulge in; they aren’t the ones with the point to prove.
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Post by lordroel on Nov 26, 2021 17:24:21 GMT
August 5: A coup attempt by elements of the Iraqi Army is ruthlessly put down by the Arab Legion. The first coup in the country ore another one. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Nov 26, 2021 17:25:41 GMT
There have been multiple attempts since and including 1956, none of which have been successful.
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Post by lordroel on Nov 26, 2021 17:38:26 GMT
August 20: USS Sea Devil fires a Mark 45 ASTOR atomic torpedo at an unidentified underwater contact in the Central Pacific, thinking that it was Godzilla, the Pacific Monster; subsequent investigations of the sonar record lead to the belief that the creature was a large kraken. A bit overkill. What Godzilla we need to think of, the current modern one ore the one from Japanese movies. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Nov 26, 2021 17:39:51 GMT
Considering what had been done by Godzilla previously, not really.
An amalgam of the original Japanese version and the Western adaption
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Post by lordroel on Nov 26, 2021 17:43:21 GMT
Considering what had been done by Godzilla previously, not really. An amalgam of the original Japanese version and the Western adaption What was the yield of the torpedoes. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Nov 26, 2021 17:52:36 GMT
A standard 10kt.
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That must have required a hell of a cooking pot. Or was the chief cooking an elephant and the roc tried to steal the meal?