This TL is based on what might have happened if Einstein never wrote Roosevelt his letter on theoretical physics. The first part is how he died (very short) and the second is how war between America and Russia started on Japan as they both invaded it. The idea is they would have nothing stopping them fighting again an again, as there would be no threat of Mutually Assured Destruction. This chapter is just the invasion of Tokyo. I will update every 1-2 days.
If you even like this one tiny bit, you will love the thread by Calbear, which is epic, called the Anglo/American Nazi War. I think its in the after 1900, unfinished section. its brilliant.
1904
Bern
Switzerland
A crowd of onlookers gather around a burning house, watching helplessly as it burns and tumbles to the ground. Many know who are inside, others are oblivious. But all are oblivious to the monumental fork in history they are witnessing. Even his closest friends could have know inclination as to how much affect this event would have on the world. The simple house fire, in 1904, that, at the age of 25, killed Albert Einstein.
1945
October 13nth
Tokyo.
The city wakes to a thunderous roar, as the powerful 12 inch guns of the Arkansas, and the 14 inch guns the New York and the Texas pound the wooden buildings of the city into oblivion. B-17 Flying Fortresses circle above the city, raining down enough incendiaries to make Operation Gomorrah, the bombing of Hamburg, look like a backyard-barbecue. P-51 Mustangs were picking of the last of the Japanese Zeros, whose mere existence had came as a surprise to Pacific high command. Japanese troops, old men, young boys, and actual soldiers waited in bunkers inside the city, waiting for the second the constant bombardment stopped. They knew that many of the comrades had already suffocated in unfinished shelters, the air stolen from them by the fire-storm the bombing had created. Hundreds of bombs (the exact number will always be debated) were spread across the city. Each contained a pressurised 'gift' from Unit 731. As the Americans left the bay area of Tokyo and enterd the city proper, the bombs were detonated. The unknown chemical agent entered through the pours and entered the blood stream within 10 minutes of contact. Once it is inside the bloodstream, it demonstrates why it would always be an example of humans having the capacity for true evil. It immediately clots blood it comes into contact with, cutting of blood flow in that vein and causing horrible swelling. Most soldiers who were affected by it had it enter the skin all over their body, so it had the effect of trapping nearly all the blood in their body between multiple walls of clotted blood. Even modern medical sciences have no hope of curing the multiple strokes it causes, or the fact it could cut of bloodstream to nearly everywhere. (After the fall of Japan, no records of this particular chemical agent were ever found, and were presumably destroyed.) As the American ground forces fell back in disarray, or simply fell, the japanese ground forces attacked. It was thought that 30 percent of the American Amphibious landing troops had been exposed to the chemical by the time it had been blown out to sea and the Japanese attacked out of their bunkers. The Americans still
had massive superiority in arms and numbers, with twice he number of soldiers as they had in the attack on Iwo Jima, with 14,000 soldeirs in the landing force. 1000 of them were dead from the chemical, and 2000 were injured and had to be discharged. Only 25 men were injured by the chemical and could then rejoin the battle. The Americans had no knowledge of the chemical, and had to assume it was still lingering. It came as a great surprise then, when 6000 Japanese soldiers ran screaming out of the mist and the ruined city. In most places, the American tanks had been used to form a defensive line around the landing zone, but in some places, the tankers were suffering from the chemical that had got into their tanks, or were still forming up. Many or the Japanese were cut down by the knee jerk reaction to machine gun the screaming figures from the out of the mist, but in the parts of the line caught unprepared, the attackers streamed through. The 11,000 on their feet soon dropped another 1000 men. The Japanese attack pushed the Americans before them, forcing them into a tighter and tighter beach head. The American tanks were suddenly in a very small, very heavily defended line. As the Japanese had no tanks or artillery, due to their shattered industrial capacity, they could not take advantage of their enemies being very compactly positioned. Instead, they found themselves smashing up against a wall of armour, and very soon their losses jumped up dramatically. Tokyo was not like any other urban battle field, in the way that its rubble was seldom above knee height. By the 14nth, Tokyo, or the field of smouldering rubble that it once was, was under American control.
End chapter 1 and Intro.
I welcome any reviews, if there are historical inaccuracies or implausibilities, please post it. Also, this is my first TL, so tell me if I did anything fundamentally wrong.