Talk:D-Day 1946

Interesting, and logical, except for one bit which I find a common flaw amongst timelines along this course of action. A bomb simply would not be dropped on Berlin. In OTL, America didn't drop it on Tokyo; it was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Yes, this means the senior staff escape, but it's a nuclear bomb; at the end of the day that's enough to have an effect to drive a power into submission. The US wouldn't nuke Berlin for four reasons:

1 - Any target will do,

2 - Berlin is a historic city, with lots of culture. The same can be said of any city, but all nations will rally around their capital and the culture of that capital; nuking Berlin would cause outrage as one is destroying the long-time German capital and its culture, and...

3 - By bombing Berlin you are destroying Germany's government, throwing the country into anarchy and reducing the possibility of a quicker progression to peace, and also allowing in the chaos other nations, most notably the USSR to invade.

4 - By nuking Berlin you are not giving Hitler a chance to respond as risk making him a martyr; by hitting another, less populous and important (but still needed) city you are showing that Hitler can't protect against these attacks, reducing people's confidence in him and increasing the chances of people rising up against him.

I know its a minor point in you story, but the best AltHists should be logical, after all.

--Fegaxeyl 07:54, November 2, 2009 (UTC)