>but why didn't they use the nukes then?Well, why didn't they use their nerve agents (Sarin and Tabun gas)?Actually, what was the point of the V2 program? Strap some conventional explosives to extremely expensive rockets for a few thousand dead civilians? Them being used for retaliatory purposes makes for great propaganda but is there really a point to this from a strategic viewpoint? I mean, if that was all they were intended for why not put more effort in the anti-air Waterfall rocket and could have halted the bomber streams and actually turned the course of the war? Some of you will simply claim that they were retarded, but if we are honest obviously this was a show of force, they had the ability to strike enemy territory without having air superiority and they wanted the enemy to know it.I know you will say that the V2 might not have been able to carry a payload as huge as a nuke and maybe you are right, but we know that the intercontinental A9/A10 was in development which would've had that ability.
Interestingly enough even American media admits more than one would think. For example an engineer which was on board of the infamous submarine U-234 which brought jets engines, rockets and Uranium to the shores of the US (originally intended for Japan) shortly after the Germany army surrendered is mentioned in this article:>One of those Dean befriended was German engineer Heinz Schlicke, who developed infrared fuses that could be used to trigger an atomic bomb. https://www.npr.org/2008/08/18/93649575/former-gis-spill-secrets-of-wwii-pow-camp>Heinz Schlicke, a specialist in radar, infrared, and countermeasures and director of the Naval Test Fields in Kielhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-234What a coincidence, he developed fuses that could trigger nukes AND the submarine had Uranium on board? Isn't that weird? I know that most historians claim the Uranium was unenriched Uranium-oxide but we know it was stored in special containers while Uranium-oxide is much less radioactive than the lay person thinks.In a sub where you need to save every little but of space would you therefore waste it on something like that?Pic related, American soldiers handling Uranium cubes without protective gear. Source for the pic:https://www.ornl.gov/organization-news/engineers-and-scientists-support-nonproliferation-efforts
And actually this is also interesting:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipzig_L-IV_experiment_accident>Shortly after the Leipzig L-IV atomic pile—worked on by Werner Heisenberg and Robert Döpel—demonstrated Germany's first signs of neutron propagation, the device was checked for a possible heavy water leakSo Germany achieved neutron propagation on or before 23 June 1942, Fermi did that in the US with the Chicago Pile in December of the same year.So that leads one to think: Did Germany really stop all atomic efforts than and there or did it simply become a black project?
Well, they were not optimized for strategic impact, which is why your instinct that anti-bomber missiles could have been more useful is correct from a purely military standpoint.
>>18006314I mean Speer himself said that the Wasserfall rocket would've probably stopped the allied bombers but anything he said postwar has to be taken with a huge grain of salt of course.
