We had the atomic bomb and they didn't.
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Yeah, but we really didn't. We had working designs for some. But after Nagisaki we were basically out of fissile material. It would have taken us months to make another. And with every strategic target way way the hell out of our bomber range east of the Urals it wouldn't have mattered much. Sure we could have killed a bunch or people and destroyed a lot of tanks, but Stalin wouldn't care.