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The U.S. didn't arbitrarily fling nukes into neighborhoods, they were industrial centers who had the benefit of being warned to evacuate long before they were bombed.
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The U.S. didn't arbitrarily fling nukes into neighborhoods, they were industrial centers who had the benefit of being warned to evacuate long before they were bombed.Why would Hitler have used his nuclear weapon to attack a military target? Surely he would have used it in the same way the U.S. did. Use it as a terror weapon with the threat that you'll keep on using it until the other side quits. Target any cities within range. It would have been Germany's ultimate vengeance weapon.
BTW the German's were many years away from developing a nuclear weapon. Heisenberg had made some serious mistakes.
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Steve
The U.S. didn't arbitrarily fling nukes into neighborhoods, they were industrial centers who had the benefit of being warned to evacuate long before they were bombed.
The reason chemical weapons weren't used was because there was the threat of retaliation. If Hitler's Germany was the only country with a nuke capability, then I could see him using it. In terms of targets and timeframes, I'd go for early 1944 (if available) and attack Moscow. Cutting the head off the USSR might have gained Hitler enough breathing room to enable a more robust defence against the US and Commonwealth forces massing in the UK.
Or he could go the other way round and nuke London, which was far less remote, and then concentrate on the Eastern Front.
More whiffing to follow, no doubt.
I don't intend for this to stray much further off topic, since the discussion is what Hitler (of Germany) might have done, not what the U.S. did or how people feel about the Americans using them, etc etc...wrong topic, wrong thread.The intention was to destroy a city and its inhabitants and the threat,made,not implicit was that this would continue until Japan surrendered. That is hardly attacking industrial centres. How could that be done with a weapon even more indiscriminate than a conventional area raid. We know now that the U.S.didn't have anymore bombs but the Japanese did not. It fits the definition of terror for me.
Let's play spot the factory,spot the residential area in this image.
Cheers
Steve
"one mi-i-i-llion dollars, mu-hu-hu-ha-ha-ha..!"
Gotta go with wiping out Moscow, after all, his goal was oil fields and lebensraum to the east. The London theory is a good one though.
Hiroshima:
Command and Control center for the Southern Defense of the homeland, 2nd General Army, Field Marshal Shunroku Hata commanding.
Also, 5th Div Headquarters as well as communication and assembly area for ground forces. Additionally, munitions equipment storage and dispersal for the region.
Light industry and cottage industry for war goods.
Casualties: 70-80 thousand killed, nearly as much wounded.
There has been alot of information regarding the German "Virus House" gathered over the years. Assuming they did in fact develop this weapon then we could use that as a basis for the V2 payload.It took the US until 1952 to produce a warhead to near the size that would have any chance of being lifted by a V-2. That's the Mk 5 with the W-5 warhead.
There has been alot of information regarding the German "Virus House" gathered over the years. Assuming they did in fact develop this weapon then we could use that as a basis for the V2 payload.
During the mid 60's I was stationed at Yamada Camp, which during WW2 has been part of Kokura arsenal, which had been the primary target for the bomb actually dropped on Nagasaki. Even 20 years later you could still see some evidence of WW2 bombing, the area had seen some raids, but not the extensive area bombing of some of Japans other idustrial cities.Thought I read somewhere is that those cities in Japan had not been bombed yet, all damage would be from the nukes, damage effects easier to study