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But why would the US take it? If there's one thing the USN had was a surplus of old WWII carrier hulls.

I doubt this, tbh. Nukes were meant to stop the war, not slow it down. And Romania is not only not Germany, it's too close to the USSR. My best bet, other than Berlin, would be Hamburg or Nurember. Primary German port and shipyard or the home of the nazi party.

When the soviets dropped the "Tsar Bomb" from a Tu-95, the bomb was rigged with a parachute, so as to give enough time for the bomber to escape. Don't see why this couldn't be done to a bomb dropped from a Lancaster (or a Lincoln, depending on how late this goes). I'd say more relevant is: why...

... waaaaat?!

"Boxing Peking, 1901." The loss of the foreign legations in Peking.

"January 1942 - Operation Hi no hana" The disastrous japanese atempt to invade and conquer Hawaii. "Operation High Iron - August 1944". Following the June attack in Normandy, the allies land in Norway, to cut off the german iron ore supply. "Operation Sea Spear - September 1918: the first...

What about a Argentina–Chile war? These two have been eyeballing each other and mumbling for a long time...

What format is it in? If it's not jpg, convert it.

A "Tone/Hipper" would be excelent! They could use it to launch Me-109s with extra tanks; since most of their "work" would be in the North Sea, the fighters would stand a good chance of heading to land.

Any king of tow is a massive risk for an aircraft, specially a heavy one. And glider bombs have been around for decades. As for "pilot bailing out", for this to be efective the glider would not only have to be reliatively big, it would also have to fly high. Both of which would have it an...

... why tow them and not carry them?

For "all aspect" you need proper guidance and fire control, not a big bang. The air-air nukes were used by the USAF (don't think the USSR had any) precisely because of the lack of proper systems. Once the USAF had those they removed air-air nukes from the arsenal. Also, I'm not sure how the...

Yeah utter insanity... poor He-177...

You can't start it much earler, tbh. The (failed) atempt was in June 28, original ultimatum was issued on 23 July, Austria declared war on the 28th. You might shave a couple of weeks off this, but not much. Remember you still need to send letters by messenger/train, etc, then wait a couple of...

Yeah... no way this doesn't start rolling hard. If anything I expect the original demands/ultimatum to be even worse. Assuming there even is one, and Ferdinand doesn't simply go "My name is Ferdinand, you killed my wife. Prepare to die" on Serbia, and just declares war.