How Long Before Germany Develops Nukes in Nazi Victory TL?

There's the old "SU" again. I don't see why so many people on this board think so highly of Syracuse University (which, if I am not mistaken, does not possess an independent nuclear capability IOTL). I will assume you are referring to the USSR.

NOt at all.

It's Space University. The ofshot of the old ISU, but with the I becoming obsolete now that the orbital campus forseen since 1988 is at long last operationnal.

And SU doesn't use nukes in everyday use. Orion is just a bit wasteful, afterall.

OK, end of disgression, but I've been dying to do this since that ' Syracuse University' came up.

Edit : Just to be clear ISU, International Space University, exists OTL, though the orbital campus doesn't yet ( it's trully being in the plans since 1988 ).
 
I would suggest late 1950s.

Given advances in computational power and the general aggressive attitude of a National-Socialist State, Germany would invest in nukes as they would invest in rockets, 100 ton tanks and jet engines--because it lives in a dangerous neighborhood. Heisenberg might have hashed everything, but how long would it really take there to be a second attempt?

On this Second Attempt, Germany would almost certainly refine the errors it had made before. Not because of any luck or omniscience on the part of German scientists, but because the second run would obviously involve less guessing and more testing.

It would be a more thorough, more expensive, but also more successful test.

That said, even a peacetime UK or USA is likely to be stuck in a "Cold War" against Germany and Japan at best. I question whether Germany and Japan would behave themselves well enough for this to happen--I think it unlikely. This means that the UK and USA will probably develop a nuclear device by 1948 or so, which would put a lot of pressure on Germany to build a similar device.

On the other side of the equation, Germany would be likely to Backstab Japan ITTL, so it would be hard to know how the political situation would favor or disfavor the German nuclear weapons project.
 
Anaxagoras, as an Australian I am culturaly unable to type 4 letters when 2 will do. I apologise if you get confused by this cultural divide, but I've grown up shortening everything possible and stuff that isn't possible and it's hard to shake the habits of a lifetime, especially habits as convenient as this one.

And anyway, it's Sydney University.
 
I know that the USSR managed to gather plenty of intel for their bomb from the Manhattan project in OTL but how much would they gather in TTL before before their surrender and how much do the Germans get access to when they over run Moscow for example? Is UK/UK cooperation butterflied away as this would get rid of some of Soviet spies in a US project but would they have information from a solo UK project they passed back available to the USSR?
 
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