Seventy years ago today...

[Holdek]

IIRC, didn't they also consider bombing Germany, at least when they started the project?

Originally it was a race against the Germans because they had their own atom bomb project. Einstein wrote a letter to FDR warning him about it.

 

[AN/ALR56]

Originally it was a race against the Germans because they had their own atom bomb project.

The germans flopped badly.
Also the british destroyed their heavy water plants.
Thankfully.

 

[Holdek]

The germans flopped badly.

Wasn't part of the reason because they rejected "Jew science?" like Einstein's theories?

 

[AN/ALR56]

Wasn't part of the reason was because they rejected "Jew science?" like Einstein's theories?

Exactly.
The Germans had everything to win,V-2's,best tanks and guns,decent synthetic industry.
Sadly (for them)Nazism defeated them.

 

[Dudeofteenage]

I also think a lot of people are ignorant of just how cruel the Imperial Japanese regime was..

I don't think your view is anything other than the consensus. I have never seen a single depiction of the Japanese WW2 government that was anything other than negative - fictional or non-fictional, Japanese or foreign.

Also can we please avoid the "why Germany would have won the war if I was Hitler" discussion, I only have so many brain cells left.

 

[DNJACK]

The US nuked Japan to test the bomb, not to end the war. As it was said, the carpet bombing was much, much worse and Japan was going to surrender at the earliest. The bomb made no difference.

 

[Holdek]

The US nuked Japan to test the bomb, not to end the war.

The bomb was tested in the Mojave. We didn't need to drop it on a city to realize what kind of damage it was going to do.

 

[DNJACK]

They didn't test how much radiation poisoning the bomb will cause in Mojave. They didn't test how the blast would affect buildings.

A test in real action is different in many ways.

 

[Tookie]

Wasn't part of the reason because they rejected "Jew science?" like Einstein's theories?

They didn't exactly reject the science itself, but purged a lot of scientists who happened to be Jewish and spurred many who were not into fleeing to Britain and the United States.

The scientists who did end up remaining in Germany vastly overestimated the amount of fissile material (by a factor of 10 to 100) that would be required for an atomic bomb which led to the Nazis sidelining the project as impractical. They pivoted more towards reactor research.