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hammo1j

Donor
18-xii-41. As Kolb revved the BMW to maximum revs the 190 strained against its brakes. As it rolled forward it seemed as if there was no chance it would make airspeed before it fell off the flattened deck of the converted tanker.

But then the Rato kicked in and it felt like a giant hand had hoisted him aloft. He looked back as the spent rocket fell into the Atlantic. Up ahead he could see Eichmann's 190 with its 250kg bomb beneath, black and ominous.

He set the power to cruise and steeled himself for his mission: Destination Amerika!
 
With one 250kg bomb...either chem or bio weapon. Absent ASB's of monstrous proportions and butterflies the size of elephants flapping their wings, in 1941 NOBODY can make a 250kg atomic weapon of any yield. Not sure when the first 250kg weapons were made by the US and exact yield, but that requires design experience as well as solid state electronics.
 
And this obviously German converted tanker has not been already sunk by the RN because...

I mean, its one thing to sneak a freighter with a couple of repurposed U-Boat or destroyer guns bolted onto its deck into the North Atlantic. Getting a freaking oil tanker that been converted into a impromptu carrier is a completely different matter (especially since British intelligence is likely to notice this thing while it's being converted in port)!
 

Delta Force

Banned
With one 250kg bomb...either chem or bio weapon. Absent ASB's of monstrous proportions and butterflies the size of elephants flapping their wings, in 1941 NOBODY can make a 250kg atomic weapon of any yield. Not sure when the first 250kg weapons were made by the US and exact yield, but that requires design experience as well as solid state electronics.

A complete nuclear weapons system of that weight has never been fielded. The B61 nuclear bomb is 320 kilograms.
 
Seems very implausible, but I will bite.

Give me more of the POD and what lead to this scenario.
 
With one 250kg bomb...either chem or bio weapon. Absent ASB's of monstrous proportions and butterflies the size of elephants flapping their wings, in 1941 NOBODY can make a 250kg atomic weapon of any yield. Not sure when the first 250kg weapons were made by the US and exact yield, but that requires design experience as well as solid state electronics.
A complete nuclear weapons system of that weight has never been fielded. The B61 nuclear bomb is 320 kilograms.
Not sure what you mean by that, there may not be bombs of that exact weight, but there have certainly been smaller Atomic weapons than that made

The B57 entered service in 1963 and weighed 227kg with a 5-20kt, which is I think the first air dropped bomb smaller than the size sloreck mentioned. It isn't an H-Bomb, but it is still a nuke

The W30 was even lighter with a .3-.5kt yield and entered service in 1961, the W33 even smaller with a 1-40kt yield and entered service in 1956 and the infamous W54 was only 23 kg with a .01-1kt yield and entered service in 1961. In 1952 the US produced the 270kg 8-61 kt Mark 7 and in 1953 the US produced the 270kg 15-20kt W19, so 1952-54 was probably the earliest you could get 250kg
 
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quite irrelevant,i might say. germany with nukes in 41 (which is pretty much ASB) means they win the war as they can bomb both UK and SU into defeat (unless its there only nuke,but if they can already minitiarize them,they probably have more). The US,even if out of reach,can't defeat germany without direct combatans to supply/a base to invade europe from (for which they would need a army so big their industrial output would suffer greatly)
 
It sounds more like ano inverted version of Doolittle's raid - just a few dozen bombs if that much, but at a point where they are not at all expected. Of course it's bound to backfire or at least have no measurable effect but people keep believing it could work.
 
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