Sooner or later, we'd have gotten around to smashing those weasels. Roosevelt was determined not to leave the British hanging and he was already beginning to sway Congress into declaring war on Germany before Pearl Harbor. So this hypothetical scenario would only alter one fact...Berlin might have become the third city in history to be destroyed by an atomic bomb.
Assuming Hitler conquered Britain (although I truly don't see how it could have been done without terrible losses on both sides) casualties on the American side would have been much higher if they had to liberate Britian and create yet another front in retaking Europe. I think this would have tempted the President to use the new "super-weapon" to shorten the conflict, similar to the reasoning used for nuking Japan.
Who really knows? Questions like these can make for fun discussion but it was inevitable that the Axis would lose the war. They were too outnumbered by the Allies and could never hope to match the Americans in resources and production of war materials.
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