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Poland I suppose could seek nuclear weapons had NATO been disbanded after the end of the Cold War. Also possible but less likely are Czechoslovakia, the Baltics, and Romania doing the same thing. Or they could simply rely on the Polish nuclear umbrella. The Poles could have faith that the...

Not Argentina? They came fairly close to this before democracy was restored there in the 1980s, IIRC.

Yes, I got all of that.

But using nuclear weapons over this is very risky since it could trigger an all-out nuclear war and it's not a battle for existential survival.

Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-weapon-free_zone

A little bit of reading about the Libyan nuclear weapons program: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/giving-the-bomb-revisiting-libyas-decision-to-dismantle-its-nuclear-program

Would have been smart for them to build nukes back when China was still weak.

For some reason, the weather in North America rapidly gets cold relative to its altitude.

No; France is here on this Wikibox TL, see? : https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/for-want-of-a-sandwich-a-franz-ferdinand-lives-wikibox-tl.497155/page-47#post-22748760 There's an index for this Wikibox TL, BTW.

Yeah, I wondered about that myself as well and unfortunately don't know the answer to this. :(

It was a republic and then apparently became a monarchy in or around 2022. It also permanently kept northern Algeria.

Katernika sounds like a diminutive nickname for Katerina, or Katherine in English.

What's his name? BTW, here is a wikibox of nuclear arsenals by country in a TL where there is no World War I at all: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/for-want-of-a-sandwich-a-franz-ferdinand-lives-wikibox-tl.497155/page-15#post-21449156 What do you think, @raharris1973?

Iran is capable of doing this but prefers to remain at a nuclear threshold capacity, to my knowledge. Allows for greater Iranian options that way. Libya was not capable of doing this with its own talents but did get a lot of help from the A. Q. Khan Network...

Which additional countries could have realistically become members of the "nuclear club"--as in, the group of countries that currently have nuclear weapons? Ideally, the later the PoD for this, the better. Personally, I can think of: -Germany, Japan, and Italy if they never lose WWII or...