What if the nuclear bomb was invented in 1899 as opposed to the

>>1600389
We would have 40 years of clean energy more (>implying they wouldn't fucking dump uranium in the backyard), and either Paris or Berlin would be nuked.

So all positives

>>1600389
depends who it was invented by
also if we'd been depending on nuclear energy for the last 100 years the climate probably wouldn't be so fucked up

>>1600389
Scenario is shit desu. The technological level you have to be on to develop an atomic bomb would quickly lead to a catching up in other areas.

Trying to develop a scenario where late 19th century western civilizations posses 1940 level atomic bombs:

I guess they would have been used in europe. They used Gas in WW1 and i think they would have used the a bomb too. They wouldn't have a deeper understanding what these weapons really do (like the US in 1940).

More important, i think these weapons would have been used to hold together the crumbling colonial empires. The rationale would be to scare "the savages" into submission.

>>1600389
Like lead and asbestos, the health consequences would have been underestimated greatly/unknown.

>>1600389
are you into alchemy anon?

>>1600389
>Russo-Japanese War
>With Nukes
hehhehhehehehehehehehehhehe

>>1600389

There would never have been a World War 1 or 2.

>>1600389

early a-bombs in this scenario would probably be of very low yield and delivered by barrage rather than airplanes. Fat Man was 21KT, which would be way to much for any landbased delivery method of nukes. So nukes would be more like really, really powerful bombs that could level entire city blocks, rather than cities.

Nukes would probably be used by Pre-Dreadnaughts and later Battleships to blast shore fortifications asunder. Wars would probably be fought over naval superiority so that you could deliver one or two nukes against the enemy shoreline. London, Hamburg, Marseille would all be blasted to bits.

>>1604431
This. A non-petroleum power source would have decreased the appeal of ottoman lands significantly for the world powers at the time.