What if?

[RAM]

 

Originally posted by funked:
If Galland had his way there would have been many more 8th AF casualties for sure.  But it just would have delayed the inevitable.  Allies would have upped the ante over Germany with Meteors, Shooting Stars, P-51H, P-47M/N, B-29, etc.  And Berlin probably would have been nuked.

Sure, USA had B29s to export, right?  

on a more serious note, no, berlin woudn't had been nuked. Tokyo wasnt, hiroshima was. Maybe a smaller city...dusseldorf, Bremen...but I dont believe that the capital would've been nuked.

[Nath-BDP]

There was nothing left of Berlin for it to be nuked.

[RAM]

 

Originally posted by Nath-BDP:
There was nothing left of Berlin for it to be nuked.

There was Hitler.

And there wasn't much untouched on tokyo, neither...still they nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki, not Tokyo.

[Westy]

Tokyo and Berlin were both pounded, POUNDED, night and day into rubble by the Allies in 1945.

 Nagasaki and Hiroshim were on a list of cities that had alot of industry but had not yet felt the war.

 Dresden was worse than if a nuke had hit it, imo.

 -Westy

[Nath-BDP]

IMO Moscow would have proved a better target for a US nuke, proceded by a thrust of Allied forces into Eastern Europe and into the Soviet Union.

[BUG_EAF322]

Only in ur dreams nath  

[Tac]

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuked because they were the only 2 Japanese cities with military value that had been largely untouched by US bombing, thus providing not only psychological shock to the enemy but also a testing ground for the US to see what a nuke would doto a city that was largely undamaged.

I dont think such a blow wouldve slowed down things. Victory on the ground was too swift and the luftwaffe was just too wasted by then to make any difference. After the Battle of the Bulge germany had virtually no fighter arm left (pilots).