Nuclear terrorism during World War II

Could a city have been nuked surreptitiously and underhandedly in WWII like it was in Settling Accounts? To me, that, and maybe the whole part about how Featherton and his cabinet were captured by the North, seemed the most "novel" aspects of the timeline. I just can't see that happening in real life. If government intelligence agencies were capable and willing of sneaking into other countries with a suitcase nuke then I don't see why we didn't just bomb Hitler or Mussolini with spies.
 
Because suitcase nukes weren't invented until like the 80's. Nukes in 1945 were really big.
 
Get your terms straight. A country secretly attacking a country it is openly at war with is not terrorism; an intelligence agency does that, gather intelligence (the SOE is not the MI).

That said, get your dates straight. Nobody would deploy an A-bomb before the Trinity test, May 7, 1945. Too late for both Hitler and Mussolini.

That said, others have already pointed out the 1945-vintage nukes didn't get into suitcases. Some five tons apiece for a length of almost 4 meters.
 
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