Alternate Universe

Imagine a world without nuclear weaponry.

I know, I know, a hundred dozen hippies have asked the same, but with the various posts I've been reading on the issues surrounding the replacement of the British nuclear deterrent, it suddenly occurred to me that I'd never really considered this particular alternate universe.

I can't really see it. I try to consider what life might be like if Hiroshima and Nagasaki had never happened, but I don't really get very far.

I get to the mental vision of a pilot in a cockpit peering down through... whatever the window bit in a cockpit is called. I get to crackling radio and various explosions making loud noises and shocking light.

I can sort of hear a voice, "Oh, crap, nothing happened." But in an American accent, which for some reason my aural imagination just can't reach to without introducing Ben Affleck. I point blank refuse to bring Ben Affleck into this, so "Oh, crap, nothing happened" will have to stay in a slightly out-of-place accent.

Later, I can maybe see a bunch of scientists getting fired.

Other than that there's nothing. Possibly, the human race is extinguished by something a bit icky due to resources being redirected to biological weaponry. Maybe we, like, unite and colonise space and learn to communicate with sweater monsters. Maybe we sit around in kimonos all day and smoke an endless supply of marijuana.

Not that anybody needs reminding, but they're called alternate universes because they didn't happen, and in this particular case my head isn't filling in any blanks for me.

So. What's next?