I’ve always wondered what the choices would have been if the bomb had not been ready until, say, the end of 1946, and the Red Army had pushed through to take all or most of western Europe. Do the Allies drop a couple of nukes in and around Paris to wipe out a few armies and show Stalin we mean business? Do they try and get a bomber all the way to Moscow? Would the population of the US have had the stomach for another war to free Europe from the clutches of an ally?
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