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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mr. Draco" data-source="post: 402331" data-attributes="member: 521">Wow, this is all really great advice!  Keep it coming!Well, I've almost decided exactly when my setting is different than history.  The two finalist options are:a) The US finished developing the atmoic bomb a few months (2-3) before the war in Europe ended.  The first one was sent over on a ship to England in case it would be needed.  With the end of the war, and no hostilities breaking out instantly between the Soviet Union and the Allies, the bomb was shipped back by boat secretly.  Meanwhile, the war in the Pacific was going better than expected, and the Japanese were pushed back to their mainland within 4-6 months.  Now there were three atomic weapons in existance, two were dropped from planes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the third one was being shipped back to Los Alamos.  Unfortunately, just days after the Japanese surrender, while passing through Detroit's industrial sector, the bomb detonated, leveling factories and irradiating the ground.  The resulting radioactive cloud was unfortunately pushed east, directly past the factories and steel mills, almost to downtown Pittsburgh before the winds halted its advance.This would put the US on an economic level of the Soviet Union right at the end of World War Two (hopefully) and with this equality, the Cold War should be drawn out to 2010.b) At the end of the European theatre of World War Two, at the conference of Yalta, it was decided that every country should have freedom of choice over its political system, with the exception that the German voting should be presided over by the United States, Great Britain, and the USSR to prevent the rise of another Nazi party.  In a surprising result, the countries of Germany and all those east of it, including Greece (but not Italy) voted almost unanimously to join the Soviet Union as republics under the rule of Moscow.  This sudden influx of devoted workers allowed the USSR to rebuild its industry relatively quickly, and to tap much of the unused resources of Siberia.This would bring the USSR up the the US in terms of economics (hopefully).  The increased voluntary division in Europe would make for an interesting situation in present day i think.Well, let me know which one you guys think i should go with, also, please post some ideas about how it would have influenced history...Thanks in advance!EDIT- I accidentally put 'west' under option b with regards to the countries becoming a part of the soviet union.  It should have been east (fixed now)</blockquote>

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