Sure, but they didn't actually declare war, despite multiple attacks on them.
Because the reality was that the US was unprepared for war. Thus it geared up for war while escalating the undeclared conflict.
Sure, but they didn't actually declare war, despite multiple attacks on them.
If the Tube Alloys research had continued in Canada on the path it started on OTL before the US took over, I'd say a Commonwealth bomb by ... '47? but production rate would likely be one every couple of months rather than a couple every month.What is the earliest timeframe for Operation Vegeterian? Certainly not before 1942, as I think they did not have enough anthrax stockpiled? Besides, what happens to Tube Alloys without Americans? How long would it take British to come up with the bomb by themselves?
Okay, so the requirements for this scenario are either B or C, meaning it won't attack Japan.
the soviets could have a wider conscription net because lend lease freed up people from farms and factories to fight in the armySo in 1944 the Russians were running out of guys, but Germany wasn't?
the soviets could have a wider conscription net because lend lease freed up people from farms and factories to fight in the army
the soviets had critical manpower problems in 1945That has nothing to do with what he said, Blair.
If the Tube Alloys research had continued in Canada on the path it started on OTL before the US took over, I'd say a Commonwealth bomb by ... '47? but production rate would likely be one every couple of months rather than a couple every month.
the soviets had critical manpower problems in 1945
if you take away lend lease's mobilization powers on the red army, and compel the russian war economy to produce that food, the trucks, the cloth, the aviation fuel, the tanks, the aircraft, the radios, the water proof telephone wire (a notorious russian shortage item), the locomotives, the half tracks etc etc etc; they will simply not be able to field as large an army, with the replacement capacity they displayed during the war... they would be saddled with limitations more in line with the czar's army's in ww1
i have seen estimates that say without lend lease that the Russians lose at minimum 2 million men from their theoretical mobilization capacity.... 2 million men with the high losses of otl (not accounting for reduced Russian performance due to production shortfalls/food short falls/ and inferior quality of certain Russian produced items (like telephone wire and radios)) brings their manpower issues to a head in mid 44 at the latest and starts handicapping their offensives
You're dreaming Manhattan Project costs per wiki
The project expenditure through 1 October 1945 was $1.845 billion, equivalent to less than nine days of wartime spending, and was $2.191 billion when the AEC assumed control on 1 January 1947. Total allocation was $2.4 billion. Over 90% of the cost was for building plants and producing the fissionable materials, and less than 10% for development and production of the weapons.[284][285]
A total of four weapons (the Trinity gadget, Little Boy, Fat Man, and an unused bomb) were produced by the end of 1945, making the average cost per bomb around $500 million in 1945 dollars. By comparison, the project's total cost by the end of 1945 was about 90% of the total spent on the production of US small arms (not including ammunition) and 34% of the total spent on US tanks during the same period.[283]
The BRits would be bankrupt by 1947 if not sooner