As history says, the Allies created the first nuclear bombs and used them to inflict horrific destruction upon Japan, thus ending the war. But towards the end of WW2, Nazi Germany also had their own nuclear programs. Their empire crumbled too quickly for them to develop weapons of mass destruction, but what would have happened if they got there before the US?

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