>>64089322
>Gehlen negotiations in Switzerland gifted U-23?forgot] with its deceived Jap officers (comitted sudoku in protest) and refined Euranium, plans and other equipment nominally en route to Japan (nearly merk'd by Canadian destroyer)-- enough to advance the Manhattan Project timetable (penetrated by many Soviet Spies) by at least half a year at minimum
>Maximalist Jap Faction in Imperial Cabinet insisted on calling the 3rd nuke bluff under the (correct) assumption that they could not possibly have the fuel for a third (expended in first test), going as far as to suspect a dirty-thermobaric (Krauts were using coal-dust versions on the Eastern Front to great effect)
Take it from Iceland to Sweden, across the border to Finland, and drop it on Moscow with a suicide pilot - Dr. Strangeglove style - during a scheduled phone conference with both FDR and Churchill to guarantee Stalin was in Moscow at the time.
>>64090476
>Why nuke Berlin and make Stalin's path to the Rhine that much easier
Because the entire FDR cabinet, government and Manhattan Project was penetrated by Soviet Agents thanks to British Elite Capture. The second best option was dropping the nuke on Washington to remove compromised leadership in one clean sweep, and the third best option would be a nuclear 'accident' in the Manhattan Project facility itself to forestall Nuclear Proliferation to Moscow, Red Beijing, and Third World Abrahamist Theocracy death cults.