re: #140 erik_t

Three points, very simple. We have the bomb, we have the bomber, they can’t touch the latter due to basic material science limits. You’re handwaving them away, and I don’t care for it.

OK, what would be the result if all of the Allies disappeared in say 1942? Or 1943?

What I am saying is the US could not defeat Hitler by itself, it had help to set the conditions for the development of technology. Remove that help at any given point and the path the war took, including how that technology developed would have changed.

You can’t have a complex system like a war remain the same when initial conditions are changed. You change initial conditions and suddenly you have a multitude of possible paths.

Could the US have ended the war after the bomb was developed? Yes they could have, but that isn’t defeating Hitler alone any more than a businessman while using the existing infrastructure claiming he did it all himself is accurate.