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

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Even when the war ended in May 1945, Germany was nowhere near to developing a rocket with sufficient payload to deliver an atomic bomb

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Cool. If we’re living in a hypothetical world where Germany developed a nuke, there’s a non-zero chance that their technology development would have altered from what we saw in this time line.

And yet, Germany is the primary country that has spread its legs for the religion of peace.

"The B-29 Superfortress is arguably the most important and controversial aircraft in human history.

With the dubious honour of being history’s deadliest bomber and the only aircraft to drop a nuclear weapon in combat, its story is one of ground-breaking innovation, unimaginable destruction and decisions that would dictate the course of the 20th century.

The development of the new super bomber would become the most expensive project of the entire war, totalling $3 billion, equivalent to $49 billion today. The cost of design and production exceeded even the Manhattan Project by $1 billion."

Here ya go

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Of the 360,000 troops that made up Russia's pre-invasion ground force, including contract and conscript personnel, Russia has lost 315,000 on the battlefield, according to the assessment.

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In December 2023, the Ministry updated its claim of Ukrainian military casualties to 383,000 killed and wounded, with 125,000 of these troops lost since the start of the counteroffensive.

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The report reveals that no fewer than 230,224 civilians, including 30,007 children and 16,319 women (adult female), were killed at the hands of the parties to the conflict and controlling forces in Syria between March 2011 and March 2023

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Yet all you hear on the news in 25,000 dead in Gaza

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Hitler surely would have destroyed New York, Washington, and Moscow.

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He would have destroyed the Soviet Union. Saved us from going to war.

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They never built any long range four engined bombers in any quantity. Victor Davis Hanson talks about this in his book The Second World Wars. It was a strategic mistake on the Germans part as it put Russian industry out of their reach after Stalin moved everything to the east.

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I don’t think the Germans ever counted on fighting the U.S. and Russia. Hitlers grave errors were stabbing Stalin in the back when they had an agreement and 2nd error was declaring war on the U.S. after Japan attacked PH. He should have told Japan they’re on their own after that stupidity and tried to keep the U.S. out of Europe as long as possible.


Hitler was determined to conquer mainland Europe and never developed long range bombers or really much of a navy outside of U-boats. He couldn’t even conquer Britain due to it being an island

His power was largely limited to land forces led by his Panzer divisions and a decent short range Luftwaffe. Anytime the Axis powers ventured outside of mainlain Europe (Britain, Russia, North Aftica) they struggled due to lack of a Navy, railroad infrastructure, and long range Air capability. They couldn’t move their land forces and supplies efficiently outside of Europe. One of the smartest things Stalin did was Russia had a different gauge railroad track than Europe used. So Germany’s trains couldn’t get into the USSR without replacing the track. It slowed Hitler down giving Stalin time to move manufacturing to interior Russia

London & Moscow would have been nuked, US probably levels every German city they can get too, IDK if the Germans could have reached the US by the time the bomb was developed.

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And yet, Germany is the primary country that has spread its legs for the religion of peace.

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They're overcompensating due to their shame over Hitler and WWII.

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They didn't have any. They never built any long range four engined bombers in any quantity. Victor Davis Hanson talks about this in his book The Second World Wars.

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A four engine "Amerikabomber" was proposed in 1938 and actual plans were produced in early 1942 but they never built the long range, four engine, intercontinental bomber. Was supposed to have a range of 7200 miles.

And yes, it would have been a great asset for them against Russia as well.