Ricardolindo
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Say, that, the Soviets attack the airlift planes and the USA declare war. Who wins: The USA and its allies or the Soviet Union and its allies?
and if Stalingrad wasn't so far gone, probably that too (and Murmansk would be nuked too)In such a scenario, at that time, it's nukes on Moscow Leningrad Gorky and probably vladivostok too for good measure. I'll assume the West withdraws most of the way to the Channel and lets the rot of internal nuclear destruction bring down the USSR. Nernburg Trials #2 for what high level prisoners the West can get from the remains of the Soviet Union.
Wonder if Mao would turn on the Soviets once things got really pear shaped for Moscow?
The cockroaches.
Mankind loses.
Actually, London to Moscow is just about the same distance as Tinian to Hiroshima. So yeah, Nukes can definitely be dropped on Moscow. And Leningrad. And Sevastapol. And Vladivostok. And Stalingrad (if you fly from Cairo).How? In 1948 United States was only nuclear power and USSR was just finding out how to build such thing. And USA hadn't yet much of them, IIRC only just few dozens and early nukes weren't so effective as for example in 1980's. And there wasn't yet very advanced nuclear technology so only areas which would suffer about nuclear bombs are in Eastern Europe and even these would recover in couple decades. WW3 in end of 1940's would be mostly conventional and nukes not act big part in the war.
The war starts in 1949.George Patton dies on December 21, 1945 in a car accident after leaving the victory celebration at the Kremlin.
The war starts in 1949.