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I don't know if this should be earlier to go with my early POD for this story I'm cooking up or later since I'm not talking about the story but wondering about a particular aspect that has little to do with the TL itself.

Suppose that there is an industrial war going on. One faction A, is a super-power that started the war. Faction B has 1/3 of the population and the military size at the start of the war, but ends up winning and ends up destroying many of Faction A's military units due to a mixture of luck, force concentration, and leadership.

Faction A refuses to give concessions to end the war and Faction B pushes the issue, landing troops on A's peripheral industrial centers and oversea colonies.

Faction A finishes it's secret weapons, seven atomic bombs. With most of their air force destroyed, sorties are difficult. With no airfields close to B, they have no delivery system available to nuke B to make them agree to status quo antebellum.

So in the span of 3 hours, they launch three nuclear sneak strikes past enemy detection, striking a city in their own industrial heartland and two large cities in their own colonies (all in faction B controlled territory, someone actually asked so I wanted to clarify they aren't self nuking). All of them are supposed to be important links in Faction B's supply line and all were supposed to have large military formations.

The thing though is... their intel sucked. The formations have left a week before. Not only that, but there weren't even military police (to enforce occupation) or supply and logistics personnel in them as Faction B has not yet co-opted buildings for storage or the railroads for their own use. From the direct nuking, they suffered ZERO casualties military or civilian.

Faction B orders supply trucks to go around the hot zone. The equivalent of Marie Curie discovered the effects of radiation in this time line. The command is puzzled and the soldiers frightened but the war continues.

The seven days later, Faction A launches another nuclear strike on an airfield where Faction B kept lots of its forward bombers and some escorts. Some armored units moved nearby and... also were in the blast radius.

Now I have a feeling I'm going to hear "But you didn't give us maps and it's not a real world country so we don't have enough information! But you didn't tell us troop numbers! But we don't even know what's been going on for the whole war! How do you expect us to pick a winner?"

No my question isn't who wins the war since I'm not finalizing the story (or releasing it) but making a draft. My question is, does the fourth nuke become notable?

In OTL the atomic bombing of Hiroshima was notable. It was the first atomic bomb to be dropped. Less morbidly, not too many people know Buzz Aldrin. Who were the teams that went to the Major League Playoffs in 2014 that didn't win the World Series? George Washington was the first king, I mean president, of United States. My point being, there is a certain fame for being the 1st.

So in TTL, 30 years later when people look at in universe history does the fourth nuke get special notability for being the first nuke that caused enemy casualties? Or is it like Nagasaki, which is obviously a well recorded event, but in layman's terms is simply "another nuke on top of what was already done at Hiroshima?" And I don't mean this from Faction B's point of view (in which case the 4th one is going to be notable because they lost many men there and it might have cost them the war but it might not have because I'm not revealing the outcome) but from the history of any nation that isn't the victim of the 4th nuke?
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