Why didn't the Americans just nuke Berlin?

Why didn't the Americans just nuke Berlin?

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Because it had white people

I'm guessing we wanted minimal casualties when using nuclear weapons.
Also, IIRC, bombing Japan was Britain's idea.

Japan is the one who pissed us off remember? The whole Pearl Harbor thing. Payback is a bitch. Nazis were just bonus points.

War was over in Europe and Hitler was dead several months before the first nuke was tested retard.

The soviets wanted all of the good Aryan pussy intact

Because berlin was overrun with russkies raping every man woman and child with glee by the time merica got the big boom

>Germany surrenders: May 7, 1945
>Detonation of first Atomic Bomb (test): July 16, 1945

Plus it was believed that the war against Japan would either drag on or possibly get finished off by the Soviets, leverage the US did not want them to have in the future.

Enigma was only completely broken in the pacific theater. The allied powers only broke it partially in the European theater, so they either didn't have enough information to thread bombers large enough to carry fatman and little boy (the B-29 or nothing) through most of europe into berlin or that was determined to simply not be possible with the information they had.

Also the consequences of nuclear detonation weren't entirely understood at the time, so they didn't want to risk destroying too much of Europe and the west wanted basically everything germany invented in WW2. But japan had nothing useful.

>spread radiation to rest of Europe
>rest of Europe chimps out on America

How were the us never tried for crimes against humanity

japan only entered WW2 because the US cut off their oil supply.

The nukes were, specifically, messages to stalin.

Because its not illegal to make fried rice

Japan decided to chimp out in China and Korea forcing America's hand.

Well, why didn't they nuke Tokyo? It would only unnecessarily destabilize the country. In war, your goal is not to fuck the country up beyond repair. When you are in war with a country, you usually make plans for what happens afterwards. You need to leave essential parts of the infrastructure intact, if you don't, you'll end up occupying an unmanageable mess afterwards. You are ultimately just losing money on it.

Even the simpler Little Boy design didn't have its uranium core ready until the middle of June 1945

We didn't finish the first nuke until after Germany surrendered.

t. retarded weeb

>tfw Germany would probably be better off today if we nuked them instead of letting the ruskies invade Berlin

because they won

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_East_Asia_Co-Prosperity_Sphere

Japan literally wanted to take over all of East Asia and the oil was cut off from them to prevent them from taking over other countries.

t. hates FDR but understands the reasoning behind the embargo

checked and keked

They literally said in interviews after the war they couldn't drop a nuke on white people.

I mean the state of Germany these days it wouldn't be a problem, but back then it was 100% white.

Because Russia needed to get its dick wet. Literally.

bbc.com/news/magazine-32529679

The nuke literally saved more lives on both sides than it killed because of what would have happened in a land invasion of japan.

Why didn't the Brits negotiate with Hitler and ally with him against Stalin?

Because they didn't commit any crimes against humans

Embargoing the oil was one thing.

Cutting off all diplomatic avenues after putting a country in a position where doing nothing and doing everything have, potentially, the same results, except "doing everything" has a small chance of gain specifically to get them to attack and bring america into the biggest economic boom in history, that's pretty fucked up desu.

lel Japan was already going to surrender. The nukes were just Murrikans wanting to test their new toy and use it as a display of power and fear.

You know why they nuked nagasaki and hiroshima instead of, say, the capital of japan, tokyo?

Because tokyo had already been reduced to cinders by a firebombing campaign.

Thanks to Curtis "I don't wanna see a trace of Anime" LeMay

youtube.com/watch?v=RceLAhPOS9Q

also the unifying characteristic of nagasaki, hiroshima, and tokyo were they were entirely civilian targets.

kek

There were still banks in berlin, the bankers who run this shit up said no.

>fuck up china
>guys stop it
>fuck up china more
>guys stop it we'll embargo you now
>still fuck it up

what a fucking retard

It is more like

>>fuck up china
>>guys stop it
>>fuck up china more
>>guys stop it, you can even keep part of China
>>fuck up china even more
>>we'll embargo you now
>>still fuck it up

Literally because we won, and the US is not subject to the war crimes tribunal so we can still do all the war crimes we want.

War Crimes are for the enemies of the United States, not us.

We really are the most based country on the planet

Because the Russians conquered it.