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He would not have used it, it would not have helped him conquer Europe. It would have only been useful as a deterrent.
The deterrent effect would have had no impact to a world unfamiliar with atomic weapons. I guess one could argue he could have dropped a few in Russia and let the world tremble. But still - we are simply talking about a bomb, a huge bomb. The US caused more destruction in bombing Dresden or bombing Japan's wood constructed cities then in Hiroshima.
Otherwise, Hitler had no limits, and loved technologically advanced weapons...and anything that would allow him to kill Russians quicker and simpler would be OK with him. He would have used them.
They had very few 4-engined bomber types that even came close to carrying the size and weight of a nuclear bomb of the time. The FW200 Condor was probably the closest they had, and perhaps they could have used it against England early in the war before the RAF & USAAF established air superiority over the UK & English Channel. But it was a converted pre-war airliner and it's payload capacity was limited, and needed close fighter support when doing maritime patrols to keep from being shot down. Delivering an A-bomb of the time much farther than continental Europe was by aircraft would have been beyond their capability. Certainly not deep into the Soviet Union, North Africa, or the U.S.
Are you referring to the size and weight of the U.S. Atomic bombs at that time? We really shouldn't limit ourselves to that configuration if the Germans invented them independently.
Why not? Considering how very far behind us they were in their research, and how many years after the war it took us to make them smaller and lighter, why would we assume they would make a more efficient weapon than we did? Unless we're back to the "cloning velociraptors and teaching them how to use light sabres and parachutes" phase of the conversation again.
All of you arguing this are just deceiving yourselves. The world was destroyed by nuclear war, and everything that's left is imaginary. Who cares what size bombs Hitler had? We're all just as dead regardless. We're just ghosts, imagining that we live in a fantasy world with iPhones and an internet. Not even science fiction writers would have imagined such a world, which could not possibly exist in real life. If the real world still existed, it would be a lot more boring than the one we keep imagining we live in.
All of you arguing this are just deceiving yourselves. The world was destroyed by nuclear war, and everything that's left is imaginary. Who cares what size bombs Hitler had? We're all just as dead regardless. We're just ghosts, imagining that we live in a fantasy world with iPhones and an internet. Not even science fiction writers would have imagined such a world, which could not possibly exist in real life. If the real world still existed, it would be a lot more boring than the one we keep imagining we live in.
The US intelligence would have located it and disabled it.
Nope - while I love and respect this country, and appreciate when the "Yanks" finally came to the aid of Europe to stop us from becoming German He would have used it while America was thinking about helping. Until Pearl Harbour, America didn't grasp what England was going thru.
I grew up post war, in a city in northern England that was heavily bombed by the Nazis. As a child I played on what we called "crofts" - vacant land that previously held homes that were flattened by mister Hitler's bombs. Our city had a port and we lived 1.5 miles from it. Needless to say, the bombs rained down in the middle of the night many nights. I saw what "regular" bombs did. If Hitler could, he would have finished us off as quickly as he could.
It wouldn't have done him much good without a way to deliver it. The Nazis never developed a long range strategic bomber that could have done the job, and the nuclear bombs of the time were too big/heavy to go a missile or rocket. But if he could have done it, he would probably have nuked the Soviet Union first.
You make some good points. He could have stopped the allied advance into Germany by winning the battle of the bulge. Not much more though. The US had trouble making that much fissionable material that far back. I think that the Germans would have had a similar problem.
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Can I still keep my velociraptor?
He would have used it while America was thinking about helping. Until Pearl Harbour, America didn't grasp what England was going thru.
