Just cought up to this timeline and bingeread it. I think we have a candidate for a turtledove award. Thank you for the great reading so far.
Patton on the defense? Hardly imaginable. Hammer and anvil with a flanking maneuver? That would be Patton style, although I have not got an understanding...
@GrahamB and marathag:
To my knowledge, enhanced radiation weapons were not developed as "personnel killers", but as "tank killers" since nuclear weapons were found to have surprisingly low effect on mechanised forces by heat and overpressure. The "personnel killer story was a propaganda spin...
Not really, but time is of the essence. The soviet weapons were kept apart from their front units. So they might get quite a lot in a quick strike, since here is no real leading up to war with time to mobilize for the soviets and wp forces.
Great story. Just some nitpicks: there won't be young woman along the troops in the 1960s. I wonder a little, why there are air battles over Ukraine, which was deep in soviet territory.
With the minute nuclear weapons are used, SIOP would be activated, so I guess the bombers are on their way...
To make the Space Shuttle ,better' (not actually the proposed jack of all trades) it may be possible, to have created the STS an optionally manned vehicle, payload capacity of maybe 40 tons unmanned with autonomous landing, a ,stump' nose and payload bay up to the near front. For manned...
A question: IF there was only one deck for the crew and there were escape capsules installed derived from B-70, would there have been a chance for the crew to escape 1) when serious anomalies were detected (but miliseconds before the booster got loose and turned into the ET) or 2) since the crew...