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Originally Posted by Olefin
we are still engaged in one border dispute today in Korea - I was meaning conflicts or threats of conflict
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That is a United Nations conflict, not a United States one.
The US are operating under UN authority.
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Originally Posted by Olefin
and the UN stayed in place on a major bullseye for 40 years during the Cold War
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Which didn't degenerate into a shooting war. In those few instances where tensions rose (the Cuban missile crisis for example), it's fairly certain UN reps would have been discretely finding somewhere else to go if they possibly could. It's notable that T2K gives the UN as an organisation, about
8 months before tactical nukes are used, and another few months after that before strategic strikes start. Plenty of time to see the once "cold" war go hot and do something about it.
IRL my guess is the UN probably has contingency plans in case it's New York HQ is nuked, which may be as simple as reconvening in one of multiple prearranged locations (exactly where depending on the global situation). I'm also guessing plans exist for a deliberate relocation in case of the
threat of nuclear attack.
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Originally Posted by Olefin
by the way I dont agree with a lot of what is in V2 for one very good reason - the butt kicking it gives the French which sounds much worse than what they took in V1
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Please specify what the differences are so we all know. To my knowledge, 2.x is by and large simply cut and pasted from V1 with only relatively minor changes to update the back story to better match real life events (such as the German reunification). 2.x also extends the history backwards in time from the V1 start point of 1996 to 1989.
http://forum.juhlin.com/showthread.php?t=3109