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Simon Darkshade reacted to RCAF Brat's post in the thread Could nuclear weapons have gotten Germany to surrender in 45-47 without a Western Allies invasion of Germany? with
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All that doesn't even account for the possibility that the Americans will do as they did post war and use the U-235 that was meant for... -
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Definitely not. The halt of production operations occurred because It was not needed. Had the war continued production would have...
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Simon Darkshade replied to the thread Could nuclear weapons have gotten Germany to surrender in 45-47 without a Western Allies invasion of Germany?.The cost of ground troops is hundreds of thousands of casualties. It can be argued that there are very real practical and political...
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Simon Darkshade replied to the thread Could nuclear weapons have gotten Germany to surrender in 45-47 without a Western Allies invasion of Germany?.Do we see the same shut down occurring as in @ with an active war against a better positioned Nazi Germany? I’m not so sure. Some of...
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Simon Darkshade replied to the thread Could nuclear weapons have gotten Germany to surrender in 45-47 without a Western Allies invasion of Germany?.Post 1900. I’m loathe to defend that 2009 story, but it did have a single PoD, as well as a very clear authorial declaration that it...
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Simon Darkshade replied to the thread Could nuclear weapons have gotten Germany to surrender in 45-47 without a Western Allies invasion of Germany?.In answer to 22000 Kevin: As I said in my most recent post above, that is like an 8 year old asking someone “I had an amazing dream...
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Simon Darkshade replied to the thread Could nuclear weapons have gotten Germany to surrender in 45-47 without a Western Allies invasion of Germany?.So, additional PoDs upon PoDs upon fictional German admirals, followed up by further changes? That seems fine for a story, particularly...
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Simon Darkshade replied to the thread Could nuclear weapons have gotten Germany to surrender in 45-47 without a Western Allies invasion of Germany?.A floating PoD isn’t a real one, but many, many ones. Further, by focussing on individual trees, we miss the forest. The Germans were...
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Simon Darkshade replied to the thread Could nuclear weapons have gotten Germany to surrender in 45-47 without a Western Allies invasion of Germany?.That is still well behind the Manhattan Project. From viability to an actual production effort of a working bomb that yields tangible...
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Simon Darkshade replied to the thread Could nuclear weapons have gotten Germany to surrender in 45-47 without a Western Allies invasion of Germany?.Delivering the blows in one swoop in a compounding series of hits. Not only have they lost more killed than WW1 in a space of hours, but...
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Simon Darkshade replied to the thread Could nuclear weapons have gotten Germany to surrender in 45-47 without a Western Allies invasion of Germany?.Set against that scenario is that the development of the Bomb was aimed at the Germans, who were the greater foe and threat and were the...
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Simon Darkshade replied to the thread Could nuclear weapons have gotten Germany to surrender in 45-47 without a Western Allies invasion of Germany?.For those reasons, if the Americans did elect to go for a nuclear attack on Germany, it makes more sense from their point of view to...
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Simon Darkshade replied to the thread Could nuclear weapons have gotten Germany to surrender in 45-47 without a Western Allies invasion of Germany?.With 15-20kt weapons, around 200 would effectively remove Germany as any sort of modern state, given that they would be ostensibly...