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I'm brainstorming ideas for my first TL, and I've begun to wonder about the plausibility of having nukes earlier that OTL with a POD of around the fifteenth century, involving a much more enthusiastic colonisation if the New World. I know next to nothing about the actual materials, calculations and funding needed to create a nuclear device, so please bear with me. The aim of this thread is to get a nuclear device regardless of cost or investment. It's a discussion of feasibility.

My guesstimation is about 1850, but I'd much prefer to hear your much more enlightened opinions on the subject.
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