sundance: Well, the Nazis DID have loads of rocket scientists so they might have been able to build a rocket capable of flying to the moon if they persisted longer. Of course, they'd probably finish their nuke research first (well, before they get the moon-rockets, the US would probably have nukes first but would need to…
berlin was bombed by entire wings of the USAAF and RAF with fighter escorts and bombers bombing shit on the way IN so that the bombers attacking berlin could even GET to berlin. the allies wouldn't nuke germany because they were worried if the nuke failled to go off the nazis could reverse engineer it and start lobbing…
Berlin was bombed. Also with a nuke you wouldn'thave to get very close to destroy the city. We flew a lot of mission that merit the suicide label durring that war. I have confidence that it could be done, more interesting is how the act would have affected history.
The thing is, Hiroshima and Nagasaki are coast cities. Berlin is not. That means they'd have to fly a few hundred miles over enemy territory towards the most heavily fortified city in the country. Unless you're flying a B2 (good luck finding one in 1945) that's pretty much suicide (even in a B2 you have a high chance of…
Nazi's are safe to hate because they were so damn evil. All black, lots of leather, kinda' gay. They had it all covered. The way I heard it the russian winter is what stopped the germans in their tracks. I wonder if it wouldn't have been Berlin Hiroshima and Nagasaki if the war had gone on longer or without the russians.…
Weiser: Did they bombard Berlin during the eight of the war or when they had already beaten the Nazis back pretty far? I can't imagine they'd get anywhere close to Berlin in our fictional scenario where the Nazis have taken all of continental Europe. Also, remember these were fission nukes (14.5 kilotons in "Little Boy"),…