This is the thread that will answer any questions any of you may have about the inspiration for my username.
Yes, I know this is almost inconceivable under any remotely realistic scenario. It's almost ASB material. But let's assume that somehow, Germany is able to produce a working fission weapon during the 1930s, and develops a means of delivering it - probably some variation of the HE-177. Let's further assume a yield similar to that of the American Fat Man or Little Boy weapons - somewhere in the range of 15kt to 20kt.
If Germany had been able to drop this bomb on Moscow at the beginning of Barbarossa, taking out Stalin, Beria, Zhukov, Timoshenko, and various other military and political leaders, is there any way the Soviet Union is able to successfully repel the invasion? What are some of the scenarios that might unfold?