atomic bomb

The Nobubaga Oda and His Son Nobutada Oda killed by Akechi Mitsuhide 1582 OTL, TTL Nobunaga Oda and Son Nobutada survived escaped Akechi Mitsuhide Failed, Nobunaga Oda Unification Succeeded 1584 and become Shogun lived until 1637 and replaced son Nobutada Oda. Would Atomic Bomb Hiroshima and...

It seems to me that the entire rest of WWII was almost superfluous because of the atomic bomb. Say absolutely everything which theoretically could goes wrong for the Allies: the Pacific Fleet gets wiped out, Moscow falls, Britain gets Sealioned, and Japan overruns Australia and New Zealand. But...

Against the Grain An Improvisational TLIAW by @Enigma-Conundrum @Oppo @Vidal @Wolfram From Wolfram: Henry Agard Wallace gets a bad rap in alternate history, and it's only mostly his fault. Son of a successful farm journalist and Secretary of Agriculture, Wallace brought modern biology to bear...

If this belongs in asb I'll ask to move it but while this scenario is improbable I don't believe it's impossible. What would happen if Brezhnev approves dropping a single nuclear bomb on enemy combatants in his early rule? It'd have to be something like Prague having an outright revolution or a...

Something I've been wondering for awhile lately, but let's say that for whatever reason either the lab in Los Alamos somehow manages to put together Trinity earlier or/and the Nazis (probably by sheer dumb miraculous luck) somehow manage to last just long enough to justify the "Germany First"...

As the title says, and do you think they will use it to impose their will on the rest of the world, or it will become common knowledge among the world physicians as they exchange ideas ?

Let's say the 1919 German revolution succeeds, with the Entente too cash-strapped exhausted to stop both Germany and Russia from going communist. During the interwar period the Germans and Soviets intervene in Poland and Hungary, and by the late 30s another world war breaks out, with them...

How realistic would the population be if the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated to a Global War which then became a Nuclear War, killing millions of people. Realistically the USSR would fall but the USA would survive but losing majority of it's population, basically losing it's economy and etc...

There have been many threads discussing what if an atomic bomb was ready and used against Nazi Germany. I even started a discussion for planning a vignette on the subject. Finally I have come up with a story of a nuclear attack against Germany in February 1945. There have been many discussions...

What if the United States used its brief period of complete nuclear supremacy to stop the Cold War before it really started by absolutely annihilating the Soviet Union in nuclear fire? I don't advocate that this is a good idea, but people did suggest it at the time, so I'm wondering what would...

Supposing that the Nazis manage to delay the inevitable long enough for the Americans to nuke them, what would the effects of this action be? What would the list of potential targets look like, assuming Allied armies haven't entered Germany yet? Would Japan surrender preemptively in the face of...

I did a search for the topic, but couldn't find anything decent. The question is fairly simple; is it inevitable that the atomic bomb will eventually come into existence? If so, why? If not, when is the right time to try and prevent it? Obviously, leave all personal thoughts and feelings...