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IIRC, Truman's problem was MacArthur wanting to nuke the Chinese, so having thermobarics and letting MacArthur blast the Chinese probably doesn't lead to that firing.

I dunno, IIRC, LeMay is the military until at least early Vietnam, so there's a non-zero chance he sells people on bombing the jungles of Vietnam into looking like the surface of the moon to take out the VC.

WWII What If: The thermobaric bomb is invented not long before the nuclear bomb's deployment... but instead of getting canned like a lot of other weapons projects, Curtis LeMay keeps it alive and champions it as a conventional alternative to nukes, leading to MacArthur deploying them in the...

Nope. Not gonna say more, but he's not permabanned.

AUKUS 1950s: Instead of the US developing nuclear submarines by itself, with the UK lagging behind and having to rely on buying a US reactor, the US and UK cooperate on the nuclear submarine program from the beginning. The UK expands the program to cover Australia to help reduce the amount of...

Star Trek Beyond?

Me, reading the first few paragraphs of this proposal: Oh, someone literally didn't pay attention to history/government class, where the whole fucking point of the Senate was to counterbalance the House by giving each state equal representation that was elected by the state governments.

"What if Great Britain hadn't scrapped X1 between the wars?" Great Britain built the X1 commerce raider submarine in 1926, but put it in the reserve fleet only 4 years later, due to putting bad machinery in it, then scrapped it in 1936. But if they'd kept the submarine intact and fitted it...

Cold War/post-Cold War AU: As part of Reagan's military build up, he authorized the construction of a Trident missile variant, with a depleted uranium rod payload, as a way of getting leverage in strategic arms treaty negotiations and as a potential option to deploy defensively near allied...

Here's another simple idea: Britain and the other powers draw the Colonial era/1920s borders in Africa and the Middle East based on tribal groups, not just geography. Besides making maps more complicated, what does this change?

Personally, I know what ISOT and SI are, but I'm not familiar with AHC and DBWI. If you want to make a thread with pertinent definitions, the staff wouldn't mind stickying it.

Star Trek gets fucked, since DS9 probably wouldn't get greenlit. Then again, he was already side-lined after he helped turn season 1 into a clusterfuck behind the scenes, so maybe things won't change that much.

Here's a fairly straight forward, but simple AH idea: The Founding Fathers included a clause in the Constitution that every law must sunset after a lifespan of at most 20 years, barring a 75% vote of both chambers of Congress to renew it.

I've heard that productivity dramatically falls off past 30 hours per week, but I haven't seen any data to back that up. I imagine it also depends heavily on the industry concerned and the time you start working. If you're starting a shift at 6AM, the first two or so hours probably aren't going...

I think some of them may have been done intentionally, by guys who noticed that the Native Americans got sick whenever they got in contact with European clothes, but I wouldn't be surprised if most of them didn't know.

Here's a more low key AH idea, based on this thread I made on SB: https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/people-groups-that-most-negatively-affected-program-development-acquisition.597934/#post-42448102 The late 1960s: The CONFORM project, aimed at developing a new, more advanced class of...