Atomic bomb 6 months earlier

Would the allies have used it on the clearly losing Germany?

If so I am guessing that Dresden being destroyed in a different way would not have changed much, Hitler would not have surrendered?

Query was there any direct military use for it against Germany>?

Might the threat be enough for Japan?
 

Pangur

Donor
I would think it would be used. Allied forces were far enough away from a few decent targets. Dresden might have been top of the list however I suspect that Nuremberg would have the first target. Hitler was at that stage so of the wall mad that it would not have been enough to get him to trow the towel in so Berlin would have been target number two.

Would the above been enough to get the Japanese to quit earlier. Don't think so. There may be a couple of knock on effects.

More A-bombs for Japan
Post nuclear attacks on Germany would someone like Patton taken advantage of the situation and push harder and faster into Germany creating a different post war Europe?
 
There is no reason whatsoever for the Allies not to use nukes on Germany.

Afterall, that's what the British/Americans had in mind when developing them.
 

TheKinkster

Banned
The Allies wouldn't have had the same targeting considerations in Germany that they had with Japan.

They would have nuked Berlin.
 
If the atomic bomb were available by February 1st, 1945, it would almost certainly be used on Dresden. The city was already scheduled for firebombing ; now they'd only have to risk a single sortie instead of a thousand. Tokyo would probably be next.

If this happens during Yalta, it might wreck the talks and prolong the war. Churchill might want to stop co-operating with Stalin, if he thought the U.S. could use the new bomb to defeat Germany without his help (and possibly force him out of Eastern Europe).
 

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But would a single bomber of gotten through. In the summer of 1945 I understand the Japanese did not look at a single plane as a threat. Would the Germans done the same?
 
You nuke Dresden, you nuke Kurt Vonnegut.

IIRC a couple hundred American POWs died in the bombing of Hiroshima. Even if the US knew about the presence of limited numbers of POWs at the target, they still would not hesitate to use the bomb.

The survival or death of one man would insignificant next to the altered outcome of something like WWII.
 
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