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(B2431) wrote:

OK, we know the bombs didn't need 40 tons of either uranium or plutonium.

Given the size and weight of Fatman or Littleboy type bombs just what
would the Germans, let alone the Japanese, have used to deliver them?
Other than by submarine or surface vessel I can't imagine how they
would have been able to.

They had some very interesting bombers on the drawing boards that they
never built because they didn't have a mission for them. They could
have stuck one on one of their big seaplanes and refueled it in
mid-Atlantic (they did something similar to get planes to South America
from Africa) for a one-way trip, though.

Dornier had a huge seaplane (the Do 214) that could have made the trip
with a *very* big bomb, but design work was discontinued in 1943 because
they didn't have anything worth hauling across the Atlantic.

Focke-Wulf was working on the FW 238, which could have carried a 12000
pound bomb load across the Atlantic, and might have made it back.
Germany cancelled all heavy bomber work before they got much past design
work, but it would have been ready by 1944 if the Germans knew they had
a nuke to drop.

Given the motivation, it's pretty obvious that the Nazis could have made
something to get a city-killing bomb across the Atlantic. At the very
least, they could have gotten several across the Channel... and one or
two nukes in June of 1944 would have ruined the Allied offensive after
D-day.

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