nuclear bomb

A little thought exercise for you guys... It's the autumn of 1944, Imperial Germany occupies most of continental Europe. The Allies are bogged down in Italy and have not yet landed in France. Africa and the Middle East are firmly under Allied control, but in the East, the USSR has only recently...

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...

In this scenario the Western Allies, being United States, United Kingdom and her Commonwealth , France, the Dutch, Swedes, and Norwegians launch Operation Unthinkable, which will be referred to as Operation Heliacan Freedom in the timeline, in 1946 to neuter the spread of Soviet influence...

What if Japan invented and used the Bomb on an American possession in the Pacific before the US could bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Let's say this happens after the Nazis surrender, so Japan drops the bomb between May and August 1945. Probably on Hawaii; I doubt Japan would have been able to get...

After watching Oppenheimer, I noticed that he says that if the US tries to make H bombs the Soviets will have no choice but do the same. Is this reasoning logical? If the US had instead attempted to negotiate an agreement to refrain from developing H bombs, would the Soviets have been willing...

So guys, like most people here, my intro drug to Alternate History was in the famous Axis Victory hypothetical and began going in deeper through various Kaissereich victorious scenarios and a running theme in both is eventually a German nuclear program that (eventually) yields a devise, no pun...

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...

With a PoD after WW2, how could there be a nuclear exchange set off between the United Kingdom and France? The only condition of this scenario is that the first nuke that goes off has to be either French or British and directed at their rival across the Channel (or at one of their colonial...

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In the event that Hitler was killed during WW1 and the Nazi party never rose to power in Germany, most likely seeing a "traditional" fascist regime take charge, would Germany be more willing to invest research and funds into Nuclear energy and weapons? Many of the scientists that developed the A...

As we all know, the US was the country which created the first nuclear weapons and the only country to use them in war, bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons to finally end the Pacific War. After that, the US kept the largest nuclear arsenal as many more countries developed nuclear...

WW1 is avoided until Germamy develops nukes. Due lack of nazism experts don't leave Germany resulting in Germans being decades aheads of rest of the world in missile and nuclear tech. Germany surprise nuke major cities in UK,France,Russia with V2s forcing them to surrender unconditionally and...

As asked in the title, what if one of the nuclear bombs used over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima on August 6th or Nagasaki on August 9th, failed to detonate for whatever reason? (High altitude messing with some components, incorrectly armed, faulty parts etc) What would the fall-out both from...

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...

Until the late 80s Taiwan actually had a very sophisticated nuclear weapons program which was shut down due to US pressure following a defector informing the CIA of its existence in 1987. Had Taiwan successfully kept a lid on the program until it was able to test a nuke, what would consequences...

What would be the full international ramifications of a Indo-Pakistani nueclear war in 1999? How would the world react? How bad would the food shortages, cold, and radiation get? What countries would collapse? How would politics be effected?

This has probably been asked before, but how likely would it be that Japan would get nuclear weapons during World War 2? Or, to what year would the war have to last for Japan to get nuclear weapons? This is assuming that nothing would change in what the Japanese did to get these nukes, and...

So say that Einstein’s theories were either not taken seriously or accidents and failures cause the Manhattan project to be scrapped (with similar things happening to any other nation developing) . How would the allies deal with japan and not long afterwards would there be a world war 3 between...

Ok so the idea is this, arrays or matrices above cities or whole countries, of balloons at around 35 km up, the balloons are in a grid or other pattern or set distance away from each other. The point is to be a shield in a way by forcing incoming missiles to detonate higher up and thus...

Imagine its 1942, the Yanks aren't in the war and it doesn't look much like their going to be, it hard to see the Russians turning the tables on old Fritz long before 1950 and Britain's invasion of Germany is about as near as its moon landing. You are the titular 'bomber' and are told of a...