As already pointed out, the TRS-80 was a bit early compared to the IBM clones. Given the overwhelming success of the IBM/DOS clones I wonder if any competitor really had a serious chance, even Apple/MAC had a near death experience in the 90s. See, for example, what happened to Atari or the once...
As you already demonstrated, getting Lafo as chancellor is tricky to begin with - he always was from the left wing of the party. So probably a coalition with the Greens, also more to the left than nowadays. What would be the situation on state level? Maybe the same, but as the federal partys...
How? I mean even with open support of radical students etc. they not even had the snowball in hell chance. What were those 'critical targets'? Politicans - same reaction, even more so. Infrastructure - I strongly doubt they had the manpower to do real damage. And regardless whatever they do -...
This, basically. Something that annoys me quite a bit in this (and similar) threads is the still widespread assuption that the current day Germans were just waiting for the right moment to unleash the mighty Bundeswehr to install the fourth Reich. By 1990 even the once powerful...
You get massive butterfly effects all over the place, I somehow doubt there would be WWII as we know it. E.g. if several sides have nukes (barely possible), we probably have MAD. But first the money has to come from somwhere - the additional funding has to come from somwhere, which will have...
I am not entirely sure what your point is - basic research did proceed very fast, even after 1910 - probably as fast as reasonably possible given the circumstances (i.e. available funding). Nuclear physics, for example, was nothing but very, very basic research until the late 30s.
Haigerloch is a small town, in a rural area, even more so in 44-45. So if (unsure given the limited knowledge of things radioactive back then) people are evacuated in time, not a major disaster regarding the number of people killed directly. Especially during wartime, when more poeople get...
As mentioned already, the fissionable material tends to have isotopic/chemcial characteristics based on its sources. However, in the early 50s mass spectroscopy was probably not that advanced to pin down such fingerprints (tiny differences in probably trace amounts of material to work with...
Probably not - the balance between the swiss germans/french/italians and rhaeo-romans was/is quite delicate. I don't think expanding the already dominating german speaking part with members of uncertain political allegiance would be very popoular (even among swiss germans)
This leads straight to some movie related ATL. Assault on a Queen, but not with a German U-Boot but as last horray for the Yamato before being scrapped?
I don't think that Italy would get away with keeping anything occupied in WWII. They would hand back the occupied part of Switzerland, subito, no discussion, or else. And France keeping parts of Switzerland occupied by Vichy? Seriously?And I don't understand the rationale to form a 'large'...
What would happen with the Swiss part of Germany/Austria - would the people be expelled like east of the Oder, or expected to become citizen of the new Super-Switzerland?
The latter case would mean that the Swiss would suddenly more than double its population - with the new citizen being the...
I wonder what the post-war consequences would be - less neutral Switzerland, probably. And, if there were any larger support for the Third Reich during occupation, probably deep fractures in swiss post war society. Especially, if the support were uneven among the ethincal groups.