4 points | by schrodinger 11 hours ago ago
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I'll start:
Nuclear fission delayed 25 years.
WWII fought without atomic weapons.
No decisive end to the war instantly cementing the US as the undisputed global superpower and ushering in Pax Americana.
No mutually assured destruction fundamentally altering the calculus of major warfare.
Yet the discovery was inevitable, and they start appearing in the 1960s under a different world order. What happens next?
I'll start:
Nuclear fission delayed 25 years.
WWII fought without atomic weapons.
No decisive end to the war instantly cementing the US as the undisputed global superpower and ushering in Pax Americana.
No mutually assured destruction fundamentally altering the calculus of major warfare.
Yet the discovery was inevitable, and they start appearing in the 1960s under a different world order. What happens next?