Come up with a situation in which Germany is nuked and Surrenders in WWII and Japan is conquered through conventional warfare.
Come up with a situation in which Germany is nuked and Surrenders in WWII and Japan is conquered through conventional warfare.
Come up with a situation in which Germany is nuked and Surrenders in WWII and Japan is conquered through conventional warfare.
Germany would not have surrendered due to being nuked. Japan didn't OTL, so why would Germany?
Besides, nothing, let alone a few nukes, will make Germany surrender unless you kill Hitler.
So yes, you can have Germany nuked, but you cannot have Germany nuked and surrender because of it.
A situation in which Germany is nuked is also a situation where the end of the war is nowhere in sight and the outcome of the war is completely unknown.
Well after both bombs fell the Japanese did give up. Maybe it will take some kind of Coup to make Germany surrender.
Well after both bombs fell the Japanese did give up. Maybe it will take some kind of Coup to make Germany surrender.
Nuclear weapons used in the densly populated European continent is asking fro troubles in the first place. Neighbouring states, such as Sweden, France (if already liberated) and especially the UK would not support the idea, just as these states understood the importance of the previous war and its conclusion. If somehow the USA wanted to use nuclear weapons on Germany, the rest of the alliance would force the USA to back down some way or another. Europe had more to win with a German people willing to live, rather than one filled with feelings or revenge only.
A more likely target would be the USSR though, especially to force them to back down after a cease fire in Europe.
This is a decent point, but remember that the radiation effects of nuclear weapons were unknown until well into the '50s. European cities had already been bombed by allied forces en masse, so I doubt there would be as heavy opposition to its use.
Nuking cities, however, is but one use of nuclear arms; military bases, infrastructural hubs, troop formations and the like are all useful targets that would not necessarily be located in cities.