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  1. Realistic British Interplanetary Society Moonship?

    The fact is that Britain actually was a world-leader in aviation and jet propulsion in 1945 and simply gave it all away, even to the Soviets. Britain lacked the will to do anything outstanding in that drab, stoney-broke world.

  2. Voices of Doomsday

    But Lemay was Chairman of the JCS wasn't he? It would have been Power in the Omaha bunker.

  3. Voices of Doomsday

    I'd like to see some updates on the situation in UK and the USSR, especially the latter. I was 17 at the time of the Cuban crisis and frankly was scared sh1tless that it was going to happen. Even drove past a dispersal field near our town and saw four Vulcans sat at the end of the runway...

  4. Voices of Doomsday

    The early Polaris missiles had major reliability issues concerning warheads. It was later estimated that 75% were not likely to detonate due to corrosion in the warhead pit.

  5. How would nuclear war affect the development of language

    There is a scene in Threads showing kids unpicking woollen garments in an organised manner. I can't see anything like organised education getting underway after an Exchange in UK. There simply wouldn't be the spare resources.

  6. Could the Falklands war have spread to Mainland Argentina?

    I'm fairly sure that President Reagan offered the Brits a carrier if they needed it, also a lot of AIM9Ls were supplied.

  7. Rule Britannia

    Stay out of WW1 altogether. There won't be a WW2.

  8. Alternate Location for Capital of Botswana?

    Nope, I lived in Gaborone from 1974 to 1977 and it was much older than 1960. Our house was at least 40 years old when we lived in it. It was the Parliament complex and central mall that was built in 1960.

  9. WI: Reinforced Operation Typhoon captured Moscow?

    Logistics being the enemy, why wasn't the effort post-Smolensk put into taking Leningrad, thus opening up seaborn logistics and joining hands with the Finns? With Leningrad acting as a supply base (no...not dynamited by the SS), and the front stabilised for the Winter, Moscow would surely...

  10. Reorganizing the german army groups for Barbarossa

    Open flanks?

  11. The Lucky Country: Protect and Survive in Australia

    In 1984, Australia still had virtually no firearm ownership restrictions, and military weapons like the AR-15 and M-14 were commonplace. I owned them myself. Recruiting a well-armed and skilled militia would be very straightforward. This would free up the regulars for real soldiering and...

  12. The Lucky Country: Protect and Survive in Australia

    If the Canberra warhead was an airburst there wouldn't be any crater to see. Just saying....great timeline.

  13. P&S: Where Would You Be In That Universe?

    Dead in the rubble of Cairns Base Hospital.

  14. The Lucky Country: Protect and Survive in Australia

    It makes you wonder just how many of us on this thread would be alive today. :eek:

  15. The Lucky Country: Protect and Survive in Australia

    Just realised that I don't make it after all, though my family does. I was in Cairns Base Hospital that day, not at home, just having had spinal surgery. Crushed and burned lying in a hospital bed.

  16. The Lucky Country: Protect and Survive in Australia

    So Cairns gets it after all. Well, at 6:30AM on Wednesday 22 February 1984, I was having breakfast with the kids on my acreage near Kuranda behind the range overlooking Cairns. We could hear the jets taking off and landing at the Airport so I imagine we would have heard the blast over...

  17. The Lucky Country: Protect and Survive in Australia

    Dan, the runway upgrade was complete in February 1984. Our first 747 landed on 31 March 1984. I was there in the official welcoming party. I think the flight was from Los Angeles, but could be wrong....it's been 30 years. I don't exactly want the place hit ;) , but it was a runway capable of...

  18. The Lucky Country: Protect and Survive in Australia

    Just a further thought, I worked for the Port Authority at that time and was involved in both Airport and Seaport management. We always considered that Cairns had a military role and was a likely target in case of war. Our runway was 2,600 meters long and could take the very largest...

  19. The Lucky Country: Protect and Survive in Australia

    It's just fine by me, to change the Cairns strike if the overall view is that it is non-canon. I actually lived in Cairns at that time and was one of the characters I wrote into the piece. It was a bit of fun. Just by the by though, I had two waves of strikes on That Day...the first seven...

  20. Nitrous-boosted tanks?

    Ronsons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronson_(company) nuff said
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