[COEXERJ145]

Hate to tell Spiegel this but the United States never seriously considered using an atomic bomb on Germany.

[bwteim]

Here is a statement in the article that is correct:

"Finally, Hitler's World War II sent 60 million people to their graves, including the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki."

[Christopher Lincoln]

How can that be true? In the minds of America's military and political leaders, Nazi Germany was much the more dangerous enemy. The "Germany first" strategy was founded on the estimate that with Germany conquered Japan would fall, while the reverse was not necessarily true. The Allies didn't have an atomic bomb until after Nazi Germany had fallen.

[Tangaray]

Hate to tell you this, but you are wrong. Many of the scientists developing the atom bomb were Jewish, and according to a book review on C-Span book they were disappointed that the war in Europe ended before the bomb could be dropped on Germany. I can understand their disappointment.

[Calvin Locke]

...but the United States never seriously considered using an atomic bomb on Germany.

Maybe Spiegel has it confused with the proximity fuse. The Navy didn't allow that to be used over land until the
about the time of the Battle of the Bulge, iirc.