| One last note on the V1 Ju287, a B-29 is slightly faster as far as maximum speed is concerned. A B-29 is also heavier armed, and can carry more ordinance a further distance.
Germany's Atomic Bomb program was years behind that of the allies for a variety of reasons. First Hitler divided up the nuclear program into several competitive teams. Which meant that they were constantly retreading ground that the other teams had already discovered. Also Germany relied on heavy water produced in Norway to regulate any possible reactor. The German method for building an atomic pile simply could not function without heavy water. The Norwegian heavy water plant was rendered non-functional by partisans and the German heavy water supply was destroyed at sea. Germany did not have a fuctional atomic pile. Without a functioning reactor they could not begin to produce plutonium for use in an atomic weapon. By 1942 the United States already had an atomic pile functioning in Chicago. Germany would also make a number of mistakes that would prevent any reactor of theirs from going critical. With the result that the atomic pile they built did not work. By the time they could have redesigned a pile around graphite instead of heavy water or built a new heavy water plant the Allies would have had the bomb for years. Historically the German nuclear works were also destroyed by an air raid in 1945. If that were to occur in this alternate time line the German atomic bomb project would have been set even further behind the Manhattan project. |