Who would have won the cold war if Chernobyl had been an American disaster?

[Fledermaus]

[inademv]

1. Well Chernobyl wasn't purely the result of error

The entire facility was extremely poorly built and poorly operated, not for lack of attempt to do better the country was just falling apart in general by the time the reactor was brought online.

So it isn't really so easy as switching which country had the meltdown, there were factors that contributed to the meltdown happening in the first place, that shit doesn't just "happen".

[SheilaT]

2. Chernobyl had nothing to do with how the

Cold War ended.

We outspent them militarily. Plus, we had a thriving middle class back then, and they didn't.

[FBaggins]

3. Interesting question

I'd say that part of the reason they lost the cold war is also the reason that Chernobyl failed so catestrophically.

So it isn't an issue of cause/effect such that if we had the same incident (chernobyl), we would have had the same results... it's that both had common causes.

[CJvR]

4. The US.

Chernobyl was only one more straw on the alreaddy broken back.

[Kennah]

5. Berlin Wall might have fallen in 1991, rather than 1989

2 years is probably a huge stretch on my part about the effects

Given that the U.S. would have likely shifted it's focus AWAY from nuclear power for the past 25 years, we'd perhaps be less oil dependent today.