Nuclear War (Morgen die ganze Welt)
From Alternative History
Timeline: Morgen die ganze Welt
Saturday, June 16 1945 Alamogordo
Alamogordo Test Range, Jornada del Muerto desert. The first atom bomb test is successful. The yield of the explosion is 22 kiloton, more than expected.
Sunday, June 17 1945 Pentagon
President Trumann advised by his staff decides to use atom bombs on Japan. This may put an end to the war against Japan quickly. Also if an atom bomb fails to explode over Germany and is recovered the Germans would find a way to build their own atom bomb quickly. Japan will be used as a field test.
Thursday, June 21 1945 Okinawa
Okinawa finally falls to the Allies after a 3-month battle. Kamikaze attacks were used on a large scale but to no avail. The Allied superiority is too great. Hitler decides at once to send more support to Japan as the Americans have to keep millions of troops in the Pacific as long as the Japanese keep fighting. Complete radar stations are flown to Japan. Two Sea Wolves leave for Tokyo.
Friday, June 22 1945 Luftwaffe
The transsonic Me-362 enters service in the Luftwaffe. The fighter can reach Mach 0.96 in level flight and has a ceiling of 17,000 meters. It retains the four 30 mm cannon of the Me-262 and has mounting points for unguided rockets and X-4 homing missiles. This is the first German jet aircraft to carry the short-wave Telefunken radar.
Saturday, June 23 1945 Silverbird
Dr. Sänger is introduced to Hitler by Albert Speer. He has plans for an suborbital intercontinental bomber called Silverbird. The bomber is launched from a 3 km monorail and reaches 22,100 km/h speed at 145 km altitude. It has a range of 23,500 km and a payload of 4,000 kg. Speer approves on condition that the range becomes 40,000 km so the Silverbird can circle round the planet and land in Germany. Dr. Sänger gets a 100 million mark budget and is asked to work together with Von Braun.
Wednesday, June 27 1945 Malta
Malta is now under constant attack by jet bombers. Bombing is as bad as in the worst days in 1942.
Wednesday, July 4 1945 Atlantic
An incredible one million tons of shipping has been sunk by U-boats in the Atlantic in two months. This is in spite of Allied countermeasures. Although losses were similar in some months in 1942 this is clearly only the beginning. A cartoon in signal magazine shows an American soldier boarding a ship and is subtitled "going to England Yankee? take your swimsuit!" Ominously, food rations in Great Britain are further reduced.
Thursday, July 26 1945 Great Britain
Me-362 and Ta-183 fighters start escorting bombers over Great Britain, prowling around and challenging the RAF. German newspapers are speculating that operation Sea Lion is being planned.
Monday, August 6 1945 Japan
An atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. Casualties are some 100,000 civilians. Some air raids have claimed more victims but not in a single explosion.
Tuesday, August 7 1945 Berlin
The German/Japanese research team led by Heisenberg has heard about the atomic bomb on Japan. Heisenberg correctly concludes that the US has used a nuclear device. He answers a worried telephone call from Albert Speer. When he mentions that he can build an atom bomb in a few months for 100 million marks he is allocated a 200 million marks budget immediately. The U-235 refining project led by Diebner is given top priority.
Thursday, August 9 1945 Japan
A B-29 carrying an atom bomb is shot down over Kokura by Saburo Sakai leading the first Japanese jet squadron. The bomber was detected by a German radar station and immediately suspected of being an atom bomber. When sorting through the wreckage the Japanese find the smashed bomb. The pieces of the atom bomb are sent to Germany with the next Ju-390 transport.
Wednesday, August 15 1945 Japan
Japan rejects American demands for surrender. Axis scientists estimate that the US may have at most two atom bombs left.
Monday, August 20 1945 Tokyo
Two Sea Wolves arrive in Tokyo harbor with more on the way.
Wednesday, August 22 1945 Berlin
The heavy water moderated reactor in Haigerloch is modified to use enriched uranium and goes critical. The reactor will be used to produce plutonium. More reactors will be built. Germany has an enormous supply of 3000 tons of uranium, confiscated from the Belgians in their factory at Dessel. The Diebner facility in the Harz mountains is producing U-235 using ultracentrifuges. An experiment to make a hydrogen bomb by using conventional explosives in opposed shaped charges is unsuccessful but research continues.
Wednesday, September 5 1945 Great Britain
The First B-29 squadron arrives in Great Britain. Atom bombs will be sent by sea as they become available. All US efforts are now directed against Germany, giving Japan a respite.
Friday, September 7 1945 Oranienburg
The Horten XVIIIB intercontinental jet bomber makes its first flight.
Friday, September 14 1945 Oranienburg
A dozen Sea Wolves patrol in the area around Malta. Shipping in the Mediterranean is now so hazardous only 10% of ships get through. The OKH considers an aerial invasion of Malta.
Saturday, September 15 1945 Atlantic
There are now 25 Sea Wolves blockading the Atlantic. The Allies try to keep a corridor in the Atlantic secure with constantly patrolling aircraft, conceding most of the Atlantic to the U-boats. Extremely worrying is that no U-boat of the new type has been sunk or even seen yet. A new type of homing torpedo is being developed that can track a submarine at great depth.
Wednesday, September 19 1945 Atlantic
Fast cruiser Melvin is sunk in the Atlantic. This is published as a minor success in Germany but in fact the cruiser was carrying a plutonium bomb. In the future atom bombs will be carried across the Atlantic by aircraft.
Tuesday, September 25 1945 Great Britain
The Luftwaffe concentrates on aircraft factories in Great Britain. Bombers are usually the strange looking Ju-287 and Go-229 escorted by Me-362s and Ta-183s. The Ar-234 was the first jet bomber but is already obsolete. The Allied superiority in piston fighters is nullified by German jets. The few remaining P-80s and Meteors are usually attacked before they can close with bombers. At high altitude the Germans jets are far faster than the Allied ones. The Ta-183 is extremely agile and frequently enters into dogfights with Mustangs.
Tuesday, October 2 1945 France
A squadron of Vampires on patrol over France is attacked by a Ta-183 "Huckebein" force. The Vampires are outclassed, six are shot down.
Thursday, November 8 1945 Germany
The Ju-387 jet bomber prototype makes its first flight. The bomber has 6 Jumo 012 jet engines giving it a speed of 930 km/h and a range of 9,000 km with a bomb load of 5,000 kg. A true atomic bomber if Heisenberg can make his atomic bomb.
Monday, November 12 1945 Rugen
A German U-235 atomic bomb is tested on the island Rugen. Yield is 12 kilotons. The electromagnetic pulse knocks out all telephone exchanges in the Berlin area. The explosion is reported as an ammunition dump accident as was the first US atom bomb test.
Tuesday, January 1 1946 GNP
The GNP of Axis and Allied camps is now about even at 300 billion $. Axis production has more than doubled in one year. Both sides now have serious manpower shortages.
Sunday, January 6 1946 Germany
Three German cities, Berlin, Hamburg and Munich are hit by atom bombs in a night raid. This is intended as a knock-out blow by the Allies. Two B-29s are shot down before reaching their targets. One of the bombs survives the crash and is recovered.
Monday, January 7 1946 Germany
Casualties in the atom war are 160,000. It could have been more but the stricken cities were already partially evacuated and German houses are generally sturdier than Japanese ones. The damage is actually less than that of a heavy air raid one year earlier. Several cities in Great Britain are attacked in retaliation with A4 rockets carrying a new and even more deadly nerve gas, Soman. Some 70,000 casualties are reported.
Sunday, January,13 1946 Germany
Two more German cities are attacked with atom bombs, Bremen and Nuernberg. one B-29s carrying an atom bombs is shot down. B-29 bombers flying alone are quickly identified as atom bombers and attacked. Again casualties are heavy. The Allies send an ultimatum to Berlin demanding unconditional surrender. KG31 and KG51 are recalled for homeland defense.
Tuesday, January 15 1946 London
The Axis reject the surrender ultimatum with a bang. The center of London is devastated in a nuclear blast. A Ju-387 jet dropped the first German atomic bomb. The attack is combined with an A4 nerve gas attack. Casualties are more than 300,000 even with the capital partially evacuated. The war has reached a new level of ferocity.
Wednesday, January 16 1946 New York
Manhattan is destroyed in a massive nuclear blast. The attack was executed by a Me-264 squadron, one bomber carrying an atom bomb and the others flying escort. Manhattan is consumed in a firestorm. The attack was completely unexpected and caused 400,000 casualties. The atom bomb yield was calculated at 50 kilotons. Heisenberg has constructed an enhanced bomb using fusion of a few grams of lithium deuteride to increase fission efficiency. The US as a nation is shocked. Civilians had thought themselves immune to arial attack. The most devastating result is the total destruction of the financial center of the US.
Thursday, January 17 1946 New York
President Truman condemns the atom bombing of civilians as a barbaric crime. Coast Guard is upgraded and eventually the whole east coast will be covered by radar. Fighter squadrons are sent to East Coast cities. Newspapers carrying the suggestion to end the war are censored. American citizens become hysterical and demand protection. Demonstrations are held in major cities, first starting off as anti-German demonstrations, then alarmingly turning into anti-war demonstrations. Thousands of citizens are arrested.
Sunday, January 20 1946 Germany
Aachen and Kiel are Destroyed by Alied Atom bombs. a new tactic has been worked out, in which groups of aircraft attack a city, one of then carrying the Atom bomb. this tactic makes it harder to shoot down the one carrying the Bomb. Unfortunately the attacking force is too unwieldy to turn away from the blast in time and suffers 50% casualties in the blast.
