Germany should have been bombed with nuclear weapons ?

Question

Why did the US /UK not use Nuclear weapons on Germany during the second World War ? Surely this would have been the best way to ensure the quicker resolution to the War.
Also it would have had the additonal benefit of irradicating Europe of a vast defective gene pool. Would this not have been of benefit to Mankind as a whole ?

Germany will start another Third World War via all its Scientist going to work for USSR / USA, this defective gene pool is now present in the top echelions of there Military / Political elite ?

Answer 1

german?defective gene pool?
Where did you hear this?As far as most ppl are concerned the germans are a highly intelligent cultured race with values in step with our own.

Truman used atomic weapons on Japan because, despite heavy conventional bombing and an obvious outcome to the war, japan was dtermined not to surrender and stood poised to cost a million allied casualties upon invasion of the home islands.

All of europe was littered with german military,so there was no clear target.Hitler would never have considered surrender even after the destruction of germany.
Allied forces in europe were no way threatened to the extent that US forces would have been in japan.The atomic weapons were a last resort.

By the time the nazis had been beaten back to germanys borders, the soviet union was in control of berlin.
Germany has revived itself and become a respected member of the international community,thereby proving the correct action was taken.

Answer 2

First on VE day when Germany surrendered the Bomb did not exist as a working weapons system. Second when Truman did order the weapon deployed it was more of a show of force to Stalin, than the Emperor. Since planners picked a remote location no one believed the rumors of what had happened so Truman deployed a second bomb. My belief is that if the first had been 5 miles out of Tokyo Bay at midnight the war would have ended on the spot with minimal losses civilian or military.

Answer 3

Yes sir, the reserves had to come from some where. Also, Einstein lived in Germany (not saying that he invited the Nuclear Bomb there) but it just shows that they pursued the technology early on. And if south Korea can own nuclear weapons, why wouldnt germany? And in terms of "make," once you obtain one, you can pretty much deduce the structure and pretty much begin to manufacture a nuclear weapon

Answer 4

They didn't bomb germany with N W for diffrent reasons .
Firrst Germany is in the middle of europe so its a strategic place to have a manor against the Russian (back then ) . The USA / France / UK was (in charge of West Berlin for some time (and still are ), so they can defense the Rest of europe during the "Cold War ". On other reason was that they know there is a good economy if they can get rid of that diktator. Germans are known as got Scientist , Ingenieur and so on .Sorry for my lausy english ....i am a german .
I don't report you because:
I don't give a heck what you are thinking and also i believe in the Freedom of Speech

@philip
thanks for that information :
The first Atomic Bomb was tested in July 1945.

Answer 5

Absolutely not. Germany was on it's knee's just before the Nuclear bomb was fully developed and ready for use.
Re the use for eradicating a defective Gene pool. Don't be silly, the Germans are a very clever race of people and a lot of Brits (from Anglo-Saxons descent) will be from German stock.

Answer 6

Did you know: the US has ALMOST nuked Canada, Britain, Spain, Greenland and Texas. In Britain's case, the Royal Air Force station Lakenheath, around 80 miles from London, was the site of a close call on July 26, 1956. A number of US planes were housed at the base for strategic reasons. One of them, a B-47, crashed and burned while attempting to land. It skidded into a storage building housing three atomic bombs, it's blazing fuel setting everything on fire. Each bomb was loaded with four tons of TNT, but the fire was put out before the Mark VI's became dirty bombs. A teletext from the General in charge, declassified decades later, said: ''Preliminary exam by bomb disposal officer says a miracle that one Mark Six with exposed detonators did'nt go off'' When the incident finally came to light, a retired Air Force Major General told a reporter: ''It is possible that a part of Eastern England would have became a desert.''

Answer 7

At the time, there were two reasons for not bombing Germany with a nuclear bomb. (1) The war with Germany was drawing to a close and the Russian and Allied fronts were closing in. (2) The atomic bomb was not perfected enough to use it. It was another 3 months before tests were completed and it could be used against Japan.

Answer 8

You do know that some of those scientist of the defective genepool helped develope the first atomic bomb? The gene pool of Germany and much of Europe have many similarities, if not one in the same. Does that make Euporpe and every one who came from there defective?

Answer 9

The atomic bomb was not needed because the war in europe was about over at its invention. the japanese was real hard headed about surrender and fought to the bitter end .the a bomb saved alot of american lives even though the japanese did not appreciate its might. Had a nuclear bomb been used on germany the u s would not have the space program it has today because hitler's scientists were brought to the us to start it .

Answer 10

Give the 10 points to goonern014 he's bang-on, however do a little more research on 7/7 and you'll come up with a remarkable similarity to 9/11. Good Luck