DBWI: Atom Bombs in 1945?

Can you do this without resorting to Gary Stu characters like the author of the book I just read? His Stu, Einstein, speeds up technological development just enough where we have two bombs ready just in time to drop on Japan instead of Operation Downfall. And--wonder of wonders--that's all they needed! WWII is cut short by three years.
 
OOC: You'll need to edit that, because there is no way Japan could realistically last much into 1946, let alone 1948. More likely outcomes are an all-Soviet Korea, and a split Japan (still get a Far Eastern War '50-'53 if you want one).
 
Enter Luigi Romersa. October 12th, 1944 on the island of Ruegen, the Nazis set off what they called a 'disintegration bomb'. When the bomb detonated there was a flash of bright light. Trees were turned to dust and sheep were burned to cinders in a one mile radius.
Rainer Karlsch claims the Nazis set off three atomic devices during the fall of '44 and spring of '45 killing over 700 people. - Daily Mail October 1st 2005.
Curious enough all 3 devices used by the USA were of different types. As well as the Americans, the British were working on their own devise at this time. The Allies breakthrough did not occur until after a British column raced to the Baltic coast to 'rescue' German civilians fleeing from the advancing Communist armies. Perhaps the first test bomb was a German one. ???? It has often been claimed, though unproven, that the British were ahead of the Americans. Perhapse the 'German civilians' perfected the British bomb, the first to be dropped on Japan ???? before finishing the American one.????
In an ATL this could give Nazis 4 bombs before the end of the war and therefore months before the 'Western Powers'. Who would they drop them on?
 
OOC: No no NO, the Germans are not getting an A-Bomb, their researchers (of which they didn't have enough anyway) were barking up quite the wrong tree.
 
OOC: Every estimate I've seen says they'd last to 1947. The extra year is to account for pessimism.

IC: I said NO Gary Stues!!!
 
OOC There is a way Japan will last easily until 1947. Just let the war go far more in their favour; crushing victory at Midway, no Salomonas campiagn in 1942, another Japan vistory in mid 1943 against first Essex/Independence group during some limited US offensive action (in June the forces were still equal enough that US could loose a large carrier battle), Europe first strategy in its clearest form. This way the offensive in Pacfic may be delayed even by 12 months or more, with the final IJN battle fought in late 1945 or even early 1946. I would write in character, but I am unsure as to whether the OP author desires very different pacific war
 
Maybe Hawaii wouldn't be a freaking fortress resort, with everyone in the state required to have freaking rifles... Maybe.
 
OOC There is a way Japan will last easily until 1947. Just let the war go far more in their favour; crushing victory at Midway, no Salomonas campiagn in 1942, another Japan vistory in mid 1943 against first Essex/Independence group during some limited US offensive action (in June the forces were still equal enough that US could loose a large carrier battle), Europe first strategy in its clearest form. This way the offensive in Pacfic may be delayed even by 12 months or more, with the final IJN battle fought in late 1945 or even early 1946. I would write in character, but I am unsure as to whether the OP author desires very different pacific war

Even more OOC: None of the above would help against the US sub/mine warfare against Japan. No import of oil, foodstuff or raw materials into the Japanese Islands. Japanese successes could lead to more efficient use of US strength - dropping the southern, McArthur-based strategy and go for the eastern, Navy-based strategy. And the Soviet Union will go to war sooner or later.
 
OOC: Every estimate I've seen says they'd last to 1947. The extra year is to account for pessimism.
OOC: The Japanese only surrender in 1947 if Downfall is called off part-way through Olympic and the Soviets stay out of Manchuria (there's evidence to suggest that their OTL invasion was as much to blame for the Japanese surrender as Hiroshima and Nagasaki). It's therefore entirely possible that the SU can force the Americans to terms by 1946 without the US getting involved.
 
OOC: Could some of you please read a few Wikipedia articles on the development of quantum mechanics and nuclear physics from Planck's insight up to the time of WWII, please? Einstein's role in the development of the atomic bomb may very well be one of the most misunderstood contributions in science that is publicly "known".

Granted, you are far from this level of "knowing" about 20th century physics, but... If this thread is to produce any reasonable conversation, you guys really need to read up some more. Saying that Einstein was responsible for the atomic bomb is kind of like saying that the publication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was responsible for WWII.
 
OOC: Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Max Planck, Enrico Fermi, Robert Oppenheimer.

All way more important then Einstein.
 
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