Soviet Armies have too large a front for a single bomb to be buried "under" one. Maybe under a division or corps, but that's it.
I was thinking of drawing them into a city in say Hungary or Romania and then detonating it.
Soviet Armies have too large a front for a single bomb to be buried "under" one. Maybe under a division or corps, but that's it.
You are also going to have some two years to develop an airframe. Given the speed that German aircraft manufacturers were able to produce an airframe in response to a Luftwaffe specification this isn’t a problem; if they had had a bomb program they would have had a program to develop a delivery method.You aren't going to cram an atomic weapon aboard a transport and get the job done.
... if they had had a bomb program they would have had a program to develop a delivery method.
I was thinking of drawing them into a city in say Hungary or Romania and then detonating it.
If it takes place at Budapest Soviet losses will likely amount to 100-120 thousand and German losses will be close to 70,000.
100,000 within a two mile radius of ground zero?If it takes place at Budapest Soviet losses will likely amount to 100-120 thousand and German losses will be close to 70,000.
Sorry, this belongs in ASB. The Nazis simply didn't have have the resources to spare to produce a bomb, even if they hadn't driven most of their best scientists away.The original timeline is the the same. Say they had one to test in early 1944.
Sorry, this belongs in ASB. The Nazis simply didn't have have the resources to spare to produce a bomb, even if they hadn't driven most of their best scientists away.
100,000 within a two mile radius of ground zero?
In all the speculation about using an atomic weapon as a "mine", I think we need to remember that ground/surface bursts are inherently less destructive than air bursts.
A detonation at or near ground level is not the same as one at ~600 meters.
You would need Dora or Schwer Gustav and even they are barely big enough for a 1st gen atom bomb, assuming Germany could work out the manifold issues with creating the detonators to survive firingYou're forgetting the nuclear artillery option. The German army in WWII used several extremely powerful ultra long range railroad guns, and one such piece could be modified to deliver a nuclear payload. The Americans experimented with nuclear artillery on a very small scale in the post-war era, most famously with the Davey Crocket nuclear recoil-less rifle; there's no reason the Germans couldn't do something like that.
Heck, when Saddam was looking into building a nuclear weapons program prior to the 1991 Gulf War, he started Project Babylon (Iraqi super-guns) to serve as a delivery system.
So, that's one choice that could work better than a plan requiring a suicidal stay-behind team.