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Simple you decapitate the opponents capacity to fight and possibly their political leadership as well then offer them terms that would prevent them suffering further. If it avoids the millions of lives that would be lost in a Nazi state that continues for another 2-3 decades you could well...

If it would cause tens of millions of deaths you would probably be right. This is pretty much impossible with early nukes. Allowing the Nazis to continue their policies for another decade or two and you are very likely looking at those figures. In which case why were they fighting them...

Well since their entire system depended on widespread looting to stay in anything like balance and it was based on endemic and rabid racism a hell of a lot. It will still need a lot of people to devour and with tens of millions of Slavs especially but possibly others there's a lot of them to...

I think a limited nuclear war saving tens of millions of lives would be a better result than what's being suggested. That there is a lot of anti-Semitic bigotry in the US in this period doesn't change much. There are a hell of a lot of Poles and other Slavs, as well as liberals from western...

The basic idea behind the development of nuclear weapons was to get them before Germany. Both in Britain and later in the US. As such if Germany wasn't on the verge of defeat then its likely that it would see some form of nuclear targeting. By Yalta OTL Germany was obviously in the last stage...

There is evidence that the US might make a mistake like this. Hopefully once they developed nukes then a future US President would decide to take action to end the Nazis and bring some order and civilisation back to Europe. Possibly horrified by reports of events in the Nazi empire. Less...

Your talking about deaths relating to warfare. I'm talking about total deaths relating to occupation policies, especially for the Nazis. Like those millions of deaths over decades under Mao. Except here probably over a distinctly shorter period. Doubtful. Most of the people dubious about...

The vast majority of the deaths of the war had already occurred by 1944. It was the drastic decline in German power that prevented many more dying. A lot died and many more suffered under Soviet rule but less than would have suffered if virtually all of Europe had stayed under Nazi rule. The...

I don't see a separate peace being made with the Nazis at this point as everybody knows they can't be trusted. Hitler being incapacitated or even dead wouldn't affect that much. Plus while that might save some American lives at least in the short term, the total death toll in occupied Europe...