re: What if the Nazis developed an atomic bomb first?

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Hitler surely would have destroyed New York, Washington,

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I’m not sure he would have done that to us. Germany didn’t have the long range bomber capability especially toward end of war. That’s why they were working on a lot of jet engine tech and anti gravity stuff.

They absolutely would have used the bomb on Moscow, London, Paris to force the West and USSR to capitulate and let Germany keep control of Eastern/Central Europe.

It likely would have led to the U.S. developing the bomb and eventually a Cold War with Germany and its satellite nations instead of what we had with the Soviet’s. Fascism instead of Communism would have been the threat that the U.S. and Western Europe would seek to contain the spread.

The terrifying thought is Germany as an advanced military world power would have been more dangerous than the communist soviets. Germans are way better at strategy and engineering than Russians are.