New Reality Seeds

[Bill Cameron]

Originally Posted by combatmedic

POD Cuban Missile Crisis goes hot, USA/Soviet nuclear exchange, major destruction in Northern Hemisphere.

That won't work absent a POD which gives the USSR the ability to hit North America with far more nuclear weapons, an ability which was relatively lacking in 1963.

In an earlier version of this thread, I posted a link to a "Cuban Missile Crisis Goes Hot" timeline at ah.com. That post should be easy enough to find.

Putting it simply, without more/better bombers and/or more/better ICBMs, the USSR can hurt the US - and can basically destroy western Europe and the UK - but it cannot damage the US enough to create your Antipodes timeline.