Hitler had the Atom Bomb

[NagaSadow]

Day three.

8th Atomic (Detroit) (call it urban renewal) hahahahahahahahahah.

Regards

Roddoss72

Best plan I've seen proposed in over 40 years! Maybe you should forward it to the former mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, while he's still serving his prison sentence. Bet he'd like to nuke Motown!

According to Dipl.-Ing. Bernd Schulze it shows most likely the expected effect of a 7kT plutonium bomb on New York. According to Werner Grothmann, Himmler's adjutant, a similar plan existed for London.

Source:
Für und Wider "Hitlers Bombe" (Pro and Contra Hitler's bomb)
by Rainer Karlsch and Heiko Petermann

That's fascinating! Do you know what they were basing this proposed blast effect on? Surely this must have been on the basis of theory alone, as the Los Alamos detonation had yet to occur. Does the book mention how accurate this estimate would have been, had they had the technology to implement a 7 kT plutonium bomb? I don't know what kind of estimates the Manhattan Project crew were coming up with prior to their initial detonation and how accurate they ultimately were in those estimates.

Given that the document was from August 1944 it had to be based on the basis of theory. Leaving aside rumors about a bomb test in Mid 1944 in the Baltic, all the new information about the various German nuclear programs that came to light in the last few years date the first successful detonation of a German bomb using uranium on the 3rd March 1945 - too late for that document.
B.T.W. The document was apparently first made to show the effect of an attack using kinetically enhanced (dropped from orbit!) 3t TNT bombs, but then later modified with the data for a nuclear attack using the Sänger bomber or possibly A9/A10 missiles.

[Falkon]

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"It was questionable whether Nazi germany had a viable aircraft to deliver the weapon over London or New York or London by late 44."
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Uh, what about the report of the large air field in Oslo, Norway with the 40 "Ju 390" and the "Me264" bombers ?

[bishop]

It has been suggested that, as a member suggested earlier, if Hitler hadn't gone after the Jews, he might well have had nukes on ICBMs by 1938. He didn't get any of these things thankfully.... because he wouldn't have thought twice about using them all. I agree that Moscow would have been first. Then London... he was still shooting V2s at London quite happily. The US wouldn't have become a target till the USSR had been fully occupied, and a new shore line just across from the Americas emerged. The most frightening thing is he wouldn't have stopped using them, out of shear desire to destroy and conquer. I can well see Germany dying under a cloud of radiation as the rest of the world smolders.