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Post by spanishspy on Jun 24, 2016 17:14:57 GMT
Possibly with a victorious 3rd Reich and a cold war with the US [and hopefully Britain]. However they would still have their problems with "Jewish science" - unless you mean a non-Nazi Germany with more rational leadership but still deeply expansionist. Even then however I think it would be sometime in the mid-50's before you could get that level of technology, in terms of large numbers of ICBMs with powerful enough small nukes. [By small nukes I mean ones small enough to fit onto a missile, not a reference to the kilotonage.] Well the Germans come the closet to who i can think of being the enemy during the 36-Hour War but your right expect that the Germans have a good rocket program but their nuclear program was not something to write about while the United States had a good nuclear program but not a goo rocket program. The only way the Germans could attack the US mainland is either long range bombers or missile submarines. They would have easier access to the latter, especially if Vichy France survives. |
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Post by lordroel on Jun 24, 2016 19:54:26 GMT
Well the Germans come the closet to who i can think of being the enemy during the 36-Hour War but your right expect that the Germans have a good rocket program but their nuclear program was not something to write about while the United States had a good nuclear program but not a goo rocket program. The only way the Germans could attack the US mainland is either long range bombers or missile submarines. They would have easier access to the latter, especially if Vichy France survives. But if the Germans are the enemy by 1948 they would have the best rocket program in the world only followed by the United States. |
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Post by spanishspy on Jun 25, 2016 0:53:49 GMT
The only way the Germans could attack the US mainland is either long range bombers or missile submarines. They would have easier access to the latter, especially if Vichy France survives. But if the Germans are the enemy by 1948 they would have the best rocket program in the world only followed by the United States. True, but would they be able to cross the Atlantic? |
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Post by whiteshore on Jun 25, 2016 7:29:22 GMT
Maybe the relatively low death toll is the death toll during the 36 hours itself and doesn't count the aftermath? Also, I think that this 36-hour war scenario was surprisingly prescient in it's predictions.
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Post by lordroel on Jun 25, 2016 8:37:04 GMT
Maybe the relatively low death toll is the death toll during the 36 hours itself and doesn't count the aftermath? Also, I think that this 36-hour war scenario was surprisingly prescient in it's predictions. 40,000,000 people death is 2/3 of all people who died in World War II, its 34% of the 1948 United States population that was around 146.63 million people, if that is complete death toll even with out no people dying of disease, wounds or radiation sickness i find it a very high number. |
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Post by lordroel on Jun 25, 2016 17:21:45 GMT
These four images i have found could fit in right into the this thread. These specially commissioned illustrations are from Pageant magazine’s February, 1951 edition, produced by Alexander Leydenfrost, famous for realistic impressions. The edition took a look at what would happen in America if an A-bomb (atomic bomb) hit. The exodus illustration is especially good, and the whole layout realistic. The online version can be read here with the article called: Amazing 1950s Illustrations of American Cities Destroyed by A-Bombs    |
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Post by spanishspy on Jun 26, 2016 16:18:32 GMT
That is certainly disturbing, especially what I believe to be New York.
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Post by lordroel on Jun 26, 2016 16:37:24 GMT
That is certainly disturbing, especially what I believe to be New York. Yes and the images look if the come straight from the 36-Hour War even if they where made in 1950. |
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Post by spanishspy on Jun 26, 2016 16:38:04 GMT
That is certainly disturbing, especially what I believe to be New York. Yes and the images look if the come straight from the 36-Hour War even if they where made in 1950. Still aren't that far apart from each other. |
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Post by lordroel on Jun 26, 2016 16:40:06 GMT
Yes and the images look if the come straight from the 36-Hour War even if they where made in 1950. Still aren't that far apart from each other. Looking at the images from the 36-Hour War of 1948 and these pictures they could have been taken in the same year. |
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Post by spanishspy on Jun 26, 2016 16:50:47 GMT
Still aren't that far apart from each other. Looking at the images from the 36-Hour War of 1948 and these pictures they could have been taken in the same year. That they could. |
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Post by lordroel on Jun 29, 2016 3:46:57 GMT
Looking at the images from the 36-Hour War of 1948 and these pictures they could have been taken in the same year. That they could. Plus it there was a 30 minute warning given those evacuations might look like this and also the aftermath would like this in some way or another. |
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Post by spanishspy on Jun 29, 2016 4:19:06 GMT
Plus it there was a 30 minute warning given those evacuations might look like this and also the aftermath would like this in some way or another. I can only imagine the evacuations would be chaos. |
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Post by lordroel on Jun 29, 2016 13:32:15 GMT
Plus it there was a 30 minute warning given those evacuations might look like this and also the aftermath would like this in some way or another. I can only imagine the evacuations would be chaos. I think it would, also the people will be very scared not knowing where to go if the enemy is targeting every place which has more than 50,000 then there are few places to go to. |
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Post by spanishspy on Jul 1, 2016 14:03:47 GMT
I can only imagine the evacuations would be chaos. I think it would, also the people will be very scared not knowing where to go if the enemy is targeting every place which has more than 50,000 then there are few places to go to. I've thought about this when exploring rural Virginia; if nuclear war were to break out, this serene countryside would be full of refugees from the Washington area. |
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