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Agreed. But we would also have been fighting a Reich that controlled the Middle East and its oil reserves, and Russia at least to the Urals. And till the middle of 1945 nobody knew whether the darn bomb would really work or not.

There is also an excellent chance that after crushing the Russians in 43 or so, the Germans would have come pouring back across the continent and destroyed Britain, which just could not have withstood that scale of attack by itself. Then we wouldn't have had a massive base just off the European shore to launch D-Day from. Any invasion would have had to come direct from North America. The logistics would have probably been impossible.

Also remember that we only had like 4 or 5 bombs put together in 1945. Had the Reich been willing to just hunker down, it would have taken us a really long time to destroy them using the limited nukes we had available. Also, how would we have delivered them without Britain as an ally and with total German air superiority over Europe? Remember they were far ahead on jet and rocket technology. Without constant Anglo-American bombing raids, their aerospace industry would probably have forged ahead even faster.

Lend lease, mass production of bombers for England, yes, we built their 4 engine bombers too. We provided war ships and a merchant marine all before Dec.7th. Yup, and we were neutral. Huge amounts of Studebaker trucks, locomotives, tanks and fighter aircraft for the Russians. England was on the ropes and Hitler was stupid. Had he invaded England instead of Russia I would have given England 4-6 months. The Royals would have fled to Canada. Austrailia would have fallen to the Imperial Japanese Army. Had the Germans gone over to daily code changes and operational codes the war may have taken a different direction. English victories were easy when you knew in advance what the other guy was up to. Without the help of our industry alone, England would have been Kaput.