"The above post addresses that fantasy particularly wrt to air power. Nuclear weapons were not an issue and would not have been used in Europe without costing America ALL of our allies. "
You seem to know much about modern warfare.
You say that nukes were not an option - did the Japanese know this?
And why would Europe not tolerate atomic bombs on Stalingrad? Chernobyl released hundreds of times more radiation than Hiroshima.
We had no more bombs and none would have been available for years in sufficient quantities to make a difference in any invasion of the USSR.
The Japanese did not know we had no more bombs though Stalin surely did.
Chernobyl has no bearing on this issue and was far from an atomic bomb. Europe had just been saved by Soviet blood from the Nazis and would have never accepted an attack upon the USSR. To believe so is just silly.