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Post by Zyobot on Sept 6, 2021 15:24:58 GMT
'All Soviet Nukes Detonate Simultaneously In 1983'. Mass-death scenario, and thus ineligible for its own thread. Not to mention being extremely spiteful, even towards a repressive regime like the USSR.
Not just the regime but also its subjects, both inside and outside the USSR. As well as a lot that would be at sea at the time. If their got any hidden in other countries that could be nasty as well. Just thinking if they have any if Afghanistan for instance? Or possibly on ships making friendly visiting other ports. Something passing through the Suez canal or possibly the Turkish straits could also be pretty devastating and destructive. Thinking about it going to be a few in the air as well.
Going to be massive devastation across from central Europe to the Pacific as well as a hell of a lot of fallout. W Berlin for instance is almost certainly gone.
I suspect that many people are also likely to start pointing fingers as the US, especially under Reagan as having set this disaster off in some way.
Like I said, pretty damned spiteful. And more cataclysmic than both World Wars combined, not even counting the run-off affects that'd hamstring even those who technicially escaped the destruction (such as the US).
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Post by gillan1220 on Sept 6, 2021 15:43:15 GMT
'All Soviet Nukes Detonate Simultaneously In 1983'. Mass-death scenario, and thus ineligible for its own thread. Not to mention being extremely spiteful, even towards a repressive regime like the USSR.
Not just the regime but also its subjects, both inside and outside the USSR. As well as a lot that would be at sea at the time. If their got any hidden in other countries that could be nasty as well. Just thinking if they have any if Afghanistan for instance? Or possibly on ships making friendly visiting other ports. Something passing through the Suez canal or possibly the Turkish straits could also be pretty devastating and destructive. Thinking about it going to be a few in the air as well.
Going to be massive devastation across from central Europe to the Pacific as well as a hell of a lot of fallout. W Berlin for instance is almost certainly gone.
I suspect that many people are also likely to start pointing fingers as the US, especially under Reagan as having set this disaster off in some way.
Not to mention Soviet subs in the Pacific and the Atlantic suddenly detonating.
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Post by stevep on Sept 6, 2021 16:58:52 GMT
Not just the regime but also its subjects, both inside and outside the USSR. As well as a lot that would be at sea at the time. If their got any hidden in other countries that could be nasty as well. Just thinking if they have any if Afghanistan for instance? Or possibly on ships making friendly visiting other ports. Something passing through the Suez canal or possibly the Turkish straits could also be pretty devastating and destructive. Thinking about it going to be a few in the air as well.
Going to be massive devastation across from central Europe to the Pacific as well as a hell of a lot of fallout. W Berlin for instance is almost certainly gone.
I suspect that many people are also likely to start pointing fingers as the US, especially under Reagan as having set this disaster off in some way.
Not to mention Soviet subs in the Pacific and the Atlantic suddenly detonating.
That was what I was thinking about in terms of nukes at sea, sorry I didn't make it clear. Confuse things a bit by going on to mention their likely to have others in surface units, some of which could be near/in neutral ports or key passageways.
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Post by Zyobot on Sept 6, 2021 17:08:56 GMT
Not to mention Soviet subs in the Pacific and the Atlantic suddenly detonating.
That was what I was thinking about in terms of nukes at sea, sorry I didn't make it clear. Confuse things a bit by going on to mention their likely to have others in surface units, some of which could be near/in neutral ports or key passageways.
...Well, f--k. Hopefully, the Americas themselves don't suffer some gigantic radioactive explosions, even if fallout is still inevitable.
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Post by Zyobot on Sept 7, 2021 21:50:01 GMT
'1776 Britons Watch America: The Story of Us'.
Blatant American nationalism aside, it'd prove quite a pill to swallow that some wayward New Englanders not only gained independence from the British crown, but also formed what would become the most powerful nation in history in just two and a half short centuries. Never mind how Anglo-American relations eventually mended, and even gave way to the Special Relationship that exists today.
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Post by Zyobot on Sept 9, 2021 15:33:41 GMT
'All Christians Convert To Greco-Roman Polytheism Tomorrow'.
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Post by stevep on Sept 10, 2021 9:50:29 GMT
'All Christians Convert To Greco-Roman Polytheism Tomorrow'.
Well that would be interesting to put it mildly. Would Pope Francis become the new Pontifex_maximus automatically? Similarly do all the churches and cathedrals become temples of assorted gods?
Its going to screw over those Christians in Muslim controlled areas, especially controlled by the more extreme elements as they would no longer qualify as fellow 'people of the book' I think the phase is. Although the combined population of the new Greco-Roman faith would be larger than any other group and those worshipers of Mars/Ares might not take abuse of fellow people well so that could be messy.
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Post by Zyobot on Sept 13, 2021 18:51:16 GMT
'William Shakespeare Carries A Spear He Shakes Wherever He Goes'.
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Post by stevep on Sept 14, 2021 11:04:17 GMT
'William Shakespeare Carries A Spear He Shakes Wherever He Goes'.
Well that could be interesting whenever he has an interview with some aristocrat or others to try and gain patronage. Don't know if he ever got to see either Elizabeth I or James I but if he insists on doing that he's likely to get a rough reception given the fear of assassination at the like. Even if he's not just locked up or worse as a lunatic.
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Post by Zyobot on Sept 14, 2021 23:40:38 GMT
'Arnold Schwarzenegger Starts A Schwartz Cult'.
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Post by Zyobot on Sept 16, 2021 0:46:19 GMT
'Joseph Stalin Becomes Eight Feet Tall'.
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Post by stevep on Sept 16, 2021 10:53:54 GMT
'Joseph Stalin Becomes Eight Feet Tall'.
Given the problems of being that tall he doesn't live anything like as long. Plus its going to make him a lot harder to hide when he's on the run from the Czar's police.
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Post by Zyobot on Sept 16, 2021 16:42:52 GMT
'Kim Jong-Un Gains Yao Ming's Body Type'.
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Post by gillan1220 on Sept 16, 2021 17:36:39 GMT
'Kim Jong-Un Gains Yao Ming's Body Type'. Then he would be better in basketball.
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Post by Zyobot on Sept 16, 2021 18:15:28 GMT
'Kim Jong-Un Gains Yao Ming's Body Type'. Then he would be better in basketball. Undoubtedly so.
Not to mention being able to physically intimidate people much like LBJ did, whether in private meetings or during diplomatic visits. I've a feeling he'd be better positioned to get away with the former, but that's in a circumstance where he's powerful enough to "disappear" people at the snap of his fingers regardless of how physically imposing (or unimposing) he is.
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