It is generally assumed that regardless of German performance on the eastern front or other factors, that Germany is doomed to be wiped out by the USAAF atomic bombers come late 1945 / 1946.
So I have a few questions:
I. What was the destructive capacity of early atomic weapons compared to heavy 1,000 bomber raids?
II. How many weapons would the US be able to deploy in combat by the end of 1946?
III. If Germany is able to perform far better on the eastern front ( say they've taken out Leningrad/Moscow/Stalingrad/Baku but can't advance further due to the sheer logistical problems involved, highly debatable, but lets just say they did this for the sake of argument ), how much better of an air defense could be built up with resources from a less active Eastern front freed? Additionally how much potential did the German jets and early SAMs in the works have to inflict loss on the allied bomber fleets?
IV. Could Germany continue to stay an effective combatant in the war past 1946 calculating the above questions in?
V. If Germany had effectively won the eastern front by 1943, what is the earliest the Germans could develop a bomb of their own?