For my AP U.S. History class in high school, I read Studs Terkel's The Good War, an oral history of WWII.
One section derived from interviews with a black guy who'd been involved in racial activism at the time. He said that "most blacks" don't believe the A-Bomb would have been used on a white city.
Another interview was with a Manhattan Project scientist, who said the bomb was originally intended for use on Germany.
We've gotten into discussions on this forum about whether or not the U.S. would have nuked a white city, but given how the Allies gratuitously firebombed white cities all the time and the "evil stigma" of nukes didn't exist yet, I'm pretty sure they would.
If the war in Europe had gone differently and lasted longer--perhaps OTL's Battle of the Bulge takes places in the East and gums up the Soviet advance toward Berlin--what German cities would have gotten "smacked in the face with the sun"?
I'm guessing Nuremberg or Munich, due to their significance to Nazism. But I'm no expert.
One section derived from interviews with a black guy who'd been involved in racial activism at the time. He said that "most blacks" don't believe the A-Bomb would have been used on a white city.
Another interview was with a Manhattan Project scientist, who said the bomb was originally intended for use on Germany.
We've gotten into discussions on this forum about whether or not the U.S. would have nuked a white city, but given how the Allies gratuitously firebombed white cities all the time and the "evil stigma" of nukes didn't exist yet, I'm pretty sure they would.
If the war in Europe had gone differently and lasted longer--perhaps OTL's Battle of the Bulge takes places in the East and gums up the Soviet advance toward Berlin--what German cities would have gotten "smacked in the face with the sun"?
I'm guessing Nuremberg or Munich, due to their significance to Nazism. But I'm no expert.