AH Challenge Soviets get the bomb first...

Yes,its a tough one,but can the Soviets build and deploy an Atomic bomb before the end of 1945? POD can be no earlier than 1920...
 
Yes,its a tough one,but can the Soviets build and deploy an Atomic bomb before the end of 1945? POD can be no earlier than 1920...

But such an early POD is meaningless in this context.

The discoveries that made pysicists think a bomb was possible didnt happen until 1938, and that was the result of a number of preceeding experiments.
I cant see this changing much, it wasnt anything intuitive, just a succession of developments that finally led them to believe a bomb was possible

So a 1920's POD is pretty pointless, unless somehow it makes the scientists who left for the UK and the USA somehow end up in Russia...
 
WAIT, I have it.

The Soviet Union rolls over Poland, winning a battle of Warsaw. This emboldens the far left in Germany, which now neighbors the Soviet Union. Lenin lives a little longer, long enough to see Joseph Stalin stripped of all power--making Leon Trotsky the next leader of the Soviet Union.

The Soviets grab Hungary (Bela Kun) and crush Poland. When the Great Depression breaks out, a heavily Bolstered KPD comes to power in Germany, while Nationalist elements are crushed in Spain. The real action, however, is in China, where Japan and the Soviet Union fight a prolonged war for control.

With the resources to bear and stuck in a decade-long conflict against Japan, the Soviet Union researches weapons technology with the support of Communist Germany. Among these technologies is the Atomic bomb--the rest of Europe is squabbling but slowly recovering from the Great Depression. In 1962, the Soviet Union tests a nuclear weapon--many other countries could have been first, but neglected the investment.
 
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