Project Cairo

September 1938- after the Sudetenland agreement, Neville chamberlain orders rearmament to prepare for war with Germany.

February 1939- After Albert Einstein tells Chamberlain about the possibility of harnessing an atomic reaction as a weapon, a Commons select committee on science is established to investigate the claims.

March 5 Einstein is summoned by the house of commons to testify about the feasibility of such a weapon. The Atomic bomb project has begun in earnest.

March 9- Einstein begins work on Project Cairo, named after the city where it begins.

September 3- ww2 breaks out after Germany invades Poland.

1940
may The Phoney war ends with german annexation of much of western Europe. Only the British Empire stands in the way of Hitler's ambitions. As a result of these attacks, Cairo is sped up and the new prime minister winston churchil voes "we shall never surrender".

June 18- on rumors that the British are developing a superweapon, Hitler orders operation sealion to go into effect. The battle of Britain begins.

1941
June 22- Operation Barbarossa commences.

December 7- the Japanese launch a seaborne invasion of the United States. The USA joins the war on the British side, although their main task is fighting the Japanese and not the Germans. The Soviet Union also declares war on Japan

December 25- a successful British nuclear test occurs in Rhodesia. Churchill learns of this in Chequers and orders production of ten nuclear bombs.

December 26- Churchill demands that Hitler surrender or the Third Reich will burn with a ferocity so intense that "the continent of Europe itself shall melt" Hitler refuses, believing he is winning the war and that Churchill is bluffing.

1942
April 26- a Lancaster bomber bound for Berlin carrying a nuclear bomb is shot down over the Mediterranean. Einstein begins work on a better mode of delivery for the atomic bomb. He begins work on a delivery system for the A-bomb.

May 3- the Japanese are pushed out of the USA after the battle of Seattle. The Soviets march into Manchuria.

July 8 the USA starts sending Fighters, Tanks and supplies to the Soviets (in TTL, the Americans also received Einstein's letter and were working on their own nuclear bomb and they had developed the F-86 several years earlier)

Nikola Tesla helps Einstein with the delivery system by stating that a missile or massive artillery gun could be used.