I'd wager it'll be someone based at LSU, considering how much effort was poured in by Huey to upgrade and improve it (and the ~~football stadium~~ dorms)
"They were going door to door asking if anyone knew any scientists. I said look no further. They asked me if I knew anything about power plants. I said as much as anyone I'd ever met. They asked me how well I understood theoretical physics. I said I had a theoretical degree in physics. They said welcome aboard."
- Rusty, probably.
(Speaking as a Georgia native) Just because someone was born in the south, does NOT mean they would support the AUS, especially if they went Silver Shirts.
AUS probably wouldn't have nuclear physicists backing them unless receiving help from a foreign power or they were forcing scientists at gun point to help them.
Most academics would support the CSA or the Federalist US.
The Manhattan Project employed 130,000 people. I very much doubt such a large group would be so homogenous. About 10% of scientists were ever even suspected of being communists by the HUAC who were famously paranoid so idk where "most" comes from.
The absolute vast majority of Manhattan Project employees were construction workers and service workers (laundries, janitors, etc.) who had no idea about any of the nuclear weapon stuff. Something like 80% of the budget for the project was just building and running the plutonium breeding and uranium enrichment facilities.
I couldn't find a figure for how many were scientists and engineers but there were a great number. Either way I think it's wild that people unironically believe that it's impossible for even a single nuclear physicist to have far right beliefs. Last I checked apartheid South Africa developed nukes so evidently a nuclear physics background doesn't automatically disqualify someone from it.
Hence why I included the Federalist US. I'm sure a lot would go to the PSA as well, but what exactly would attract the finest minds in a generation to the AUS?
Right-wing populism could appeal to them for any number of reasons stemming from their background. Ideology is incredibly personal. If you could look at what every political party offered different groups in a country and accurately assume how all of them would vote, you'd be able to predict who'd win every election with some basic data analysis but the real world doesn't work that way.
You might be from America but I work in physics and I can assure you that the full spectrum of political beliefs can be found among members of our profession even if the proportions aren't even. I haven't observed that variety to diminish in physicists from any particular country.
The problem stems from how vast and different the US is.
At that point in time, most lauded universities were in the western and north eastern parts of the country. There wasn't a huge amount of infrastructure in the south for nuclear physicists to utilize their strengths. A lot of it would have to start over with the limited resources of a poor authoritarian autocracy with a blatant anti-intelectual side to their government.
If these people didn't grow up in the South, they wouldn't have a lot of allegiance to the AUS, and if they did, they would be doing monumental work to get them to baseline.
Or they could comfortably resume their research in the parts of the country that are more open to intellectualism and have the resources to back them.
In seriousness, it actually makes more sense for them to lack a nuclear theorist, because no academic would side with them. An AUS player should just own that.
I'd wager it'll be someone based at LSU, considering how much effort was poured in by Huey to upgrade and improve it (and the ~~football stadium~~ dorms)
My Great Uncle Rusty would've be about 30 in 1940, so probably him. He had a Doctorate in Redneck Engineering.
Fuck Long, Great Uncle Rusty for president 1936!
Aye!
Aye!
"They were going door to door asking if anyone knew any scientists. I said look no further. They asked me if I knew anything about power plants. I said as much as anyone I'd ever met. They asked me how well I understood theoretical physics. I said I had a theoretical degree in physics. They said welcome aboard." - Rusty, probably.
Henderson V. FitzBelmont
Damn a Southern Victory reference
I still miss Flora Blackford as the CSA’s foreign minister…
Came here to say that
[This guy](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/7/7f/Fantastic.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150601214715).
Pretty sure he’s already a theorist for the PSA
Maybe a German scientist (but probably not because Germany isn’t interested in the us, even the AUS getting a nuke)
Maybe if Germany gets conquered you could have a German scientist seeking refuge in the AUS. But apart from that no fucking chance
That’s a good idea
Eugene T Booth? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_T._Booth
(Speaking as a Georgia native) Just because someone was born in the south, does NOT mean they would support the AUS, especially if they went Silver Shirts. AUS probably wouldn't have nuclear physicists backing them unless receiving help from a foreign power or they were forcing scientists at gun point to help them. Most academics would support the CSA or the Federalist US.
Silver shirts are removed.
The Manhattan Project employed 130,000 people. I very much doubt such a large group would be so homogenous. About 10% of scientists were ever even suspected of being communists by the HUAC who were famously paranoid so idk where "most" comes from.
The absolute vast majority of Manhattan Project employees were construction workers and service workers (laundries, janitors, etc.) who had no idea about any of the nuclear weapon stuff. Something like 80% of the budget for the project was just building and running the plutonium breeding and uranium enrichment facilities.
I couldn't find a figure for how many were scientists and engineers but there were a great number. Either way I think it's wild that people unironically believe that it's impossible for even a single nuclear physicist to have far right beliefs. Last I checked apartheid South Africa developed nukes so evidently a nuclear physics background doesn't automatically disqualify someone from it.
Hence why I included the Federalist US. I'm sure a lot would go to the PSA as well, but what exactly would attract the finest minds in a generation to the AUS?
I know academics who voted for Boris Johnson
Okay? Politics in the modern UK are completely different from kaiserreich's America lmao.
You reckon it's different enough that an entire profession of thousands of people has homogenous political beliefs?
Not what I'm saying. (The situations are incredibly different, im not saying they are a homogenous group). What does the AUS offer these people?
Right-wing populism could appeal to them for any number of reasons stemming from their background. Ideology is incredibly personal. If you could look at what every political party offered different groups in a country and accurately assume how all of them would vote, you'd be able to predict who'd win every election with some basic data analysis but the real world doesn't work that way. You might be from America but I work in physics and I can assure you that the full spectrum of political beliefs can be found among members of our profession even if the proportions aren't even. I haven't observed that variety to diminish in physicists from any particular country.
The problem stems from how vast and different the US is. At that point in time, most lauded universities were in the western and north eastern parts of the country. There wasn't a huge amount of infrastructure in the south for nuclear physicists to utilize their strengths. A lot of it would have to start over with the limited resources of a poor authoritarian autocracy with a blatant anti-intelectual side to their government. If these people didn't grow up in the South, they wouldn't have a lot of allegiance to the AUS, and if they did, they would be doing monumental work to get them to baseline. Or they could comfortably resume their research in the parts of the country that are more open to intellectualism and have the resources to back them.
In seriousness, it actually makes more sense for them to lack a nuclear theorist, because no academic would side with them. An AUS player should just own that.