Accuracy could be measured in meters not kilometers. The Tallboys and Grand Slams were used primarily by 617 Squadron (The Dambusters) and they were and elite squadron that became very skilled at putting their bombs where they wanted them to go.
I do agree that such an attack would be militarily useless because by the time the Allies could confirm that Hitler was staying permanently in his bunker the war was almost over and Hitler’s death would not do much to expedite things.
However a couple of Grand Slams on, or more accurately under, the bunker would not have given Hitler much chance to survive.
A related question - at some point in the spring of 1945, the outcome of the war in Europe was no longer in doubt. At this point, did the Allies want Hitler dead? Or would they have preferred to capture him alive?
Probably a slight preference for capturing him alive. There’s always a chance he could be persuaded to order a surrender, after all. We know that’s unlikley now, because we know that Hitler offed himself - but at the time, it wouldn’t have been a crazy hope.
And, hey, you can always shoot the fellow once you’ve caught him.
As far as the OP’s question was concerned, I was prepared to ignore a factor of two amongst the bigger issues. (And most effects scale less than linearily with yield.)
I take your point, but I suspect it’s more to do with the difference in the areas hit than the yield. Downtown against a suburb. Different types of buildings and people are engaged in different activities.
Absolutely. Indeed in the specific case of Nomura, I suspect Pellegrino took something like the passing reference to him on Wikipedia and spun it into a couple of pages by, ahem, imaginative methods.
I have read in other SDMB threads that Churchill and his War Cabinet discussed assassinating Hitler earlier in the war, but decided that he was a net asset for the Allies due to his constant, wrong-headed interference with German military decision-making. No cite, sorry.
The Cabinet War Rooms in Great George Street (now partly open to the public) were prepared shortly before the war. Churchill spent very few nights in there, perhaps because nobody had thought to equip it with sanitation. More recent analysis has suggested that it was far less bomb-resistant than the designers hoped.
‘Paddock’, the alternative bunker under the Post Office Research Station in Dollis Hill, was used just once by the Cabinet, to test the procedures. It was last heard of as up for sale, derelict and partially flooded.