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So, for whatever political reasoning this was, the A-Bomb would not have been used in Europe.
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Completely agree with this. Why? Because the Germans were not included in the racial policies of the USA. Japanese were to Americans what Russians were to Germans... It was not the same killinf French or British civilians than killing Russians. Is the same in the Pacific.
Besides, Great Britain and France (as well as the exiled governments of small nations) would have not agreed in the use of such a weapon in Europe.
If you drop the bomb on Berlin. Remember that Prague and Polish and Dannish cities are not very far...
And if racist president Truman DID hesitate for a while in using it against the Japanese, he of course, wouldn't have used it on EUROPE.
General George C. Marshall found inconvenient using the bomb against Japan. When he was told by scientists that the bomb could kill 60.000 people he said: "We have killed 120.000 Japanese in one night with a normal bombardment".
And of course that the Atomic bombs had an impact on Japanese negotiations. But people mostly forgets that the menace of Soviet invasion was the greatest fear ALL Japanese chairmen had, military and civilian. And when the Soviets invaded Manchuria and declared war (along with the banning of Hiroshima) made them sue for peace immediately. The Japanese might have halted an American invasion, but not a Soviet one.
Even if D-day had failed, the Western Allies would not have used the A-bomb in Europe because of the reasons mentioned above and because by that time, the Red Army would have been in the German border anyway...