DBWI: What if the Atomic Bomb had been used before Olympic?

The real question you should be asking is whether a clear display of what the atomic bomb could do might have prevented Stalin's invasion of Western Europe and WWIII, which didn't cost as many lives as WWII, as the Allies didn't have concentration camps and even Stalin preferred working prisoners in the gulag over corpses, but still cost millions of lives from 1947-1951 and left a good part of Europe so traumatized after three continental wars in 37 years that it wasn't until the 1960s that reconstruction seemed to take hold in the hearts of the people.

Hell, if not for the concept of a European Association I'm not sure Europe would ever have recovered.

True but it might have also dispersuaded Stalin if the allies had not lost so many troops and hundreds of thousands more caught up in occupation duty whilst the Soviets had a relatively easy capturing Hokkaido by December 45 due to the Japanese were still reeling from August Storm and not being prepared for a proper defense like on Kyshu and Honshu.

That and the dramatic military cutbacks Britain needed to stay afloat.
 
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