All Scenarios
Browse all alternate history scenarios across different time periods and regions.
What If Napoleon Won at Waterloo?
Exploring how European and world history would have unfolded if Napoleon Bonaparte had defeated the Allied forces at Waterloo in 1815 and continued his rule of France.
What If the Cuban Missile Crisis Escalated to Nuclear War?
Exploring the devastating consequences if the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis had escalated into a full-scale nuclear exchange between the United States and Soviet Union.
What If Tucson Had Pioneered Radical Water Conservation in the 1990s?
Exploring how Tucson, Arizona might have developed if it had implemented comprehensive water conservation and desert-adapted urban design decades before the Southwest water crisis became acute.
What If India Adopted a Presidential System?
Exploring how India's governance, politics, and development trajectory might have evolved if the world's largest democracy had chosen a presidential system instead of the Westminster parliamentary model at independence.
What If Pittsburgh Had Reinvented Its Steel Industry Instead of Pivoting to Tech and Healthcare?
Exploring how Pittsburgh might have developed if it had modernized and transformed its steel and manufacturing base in the 1980s rather than transitioning primarily to a knowledge economy.
What If Nashville Had Democratized Its Music Industry in the Digital Era?
Exploring how Nashville might have developed if it had pioneered a more equitable, artist-centered music ecosystem during the digital disruption of the early 2000s.