A little late, but that "nuclear" V-2 is bullcrap. The "Korsett" was a system to hold onto the A-4 and allow it to be locked to a test stand for a short-duration test fire. Those truncated propellant tanks would not have allowed for much range at all, especially with all that other hardware bolted on. Henshall saw some diagrams and misinterpretted them into something much more interesting (and presumably lucrative) than they really were.
And the Allies shipped Mustard Gas and worse to the front lines, to be used in retaliation.
It's nothing strange - Germans did mass produce chemical weapons during the war, including Tabun and Sarin agents. E.g. total number of complete chemical rockets for the 15 cm Nebelwerfer made from 1941 to March 1945 was 223 800.
Yes, and both sides saw Chemical weapons as a "we won't use them first, but we sure will reply in kind" weapon.
...yet the Reich did use chemical weapons, just not in a "military" context. They used poison gases in their death camps.
Not on Allied soldiers, or even on Soviet soldiers.
Hahn F.: Waffen und Geheimwaffen des deutschen Heeres 1933-1945; Bernard und Graefe Verlag, absque nota, vol. 1 pp. 133, 205.
The nasty catch is that Uranium can and will form into critical masses as people try to clean up the dust. Demon Core 2!
Uranium is not very radioactive, so the radiation damage would be minimal (and most likely not even considered harmful in 1940s - long-therm radiation hazards weren't well-known then). But uranium is highly toxic, so there would be a lot of peoples poisoned. And since Allies would immediately recognize that some poisonous material was delivered, they would retaliate in kind, dropping thousands of ton of mustard gas on Germany (USSR alone have about 80.000 tons of mustard gas agents).
I love the massive coils and those old-style aluminum fin capacitors in it.
Uranium is an alpha emitter. You have to eat or breathe it in in order for it to be harmful and even then it'll take years to kill you off.
And before then it's a heavy metal, so it's as generally toxic as lead or mercury.
It would still take years to kill you off. That's hardly a viable weapon in a war where you want casualties now.
Well, as I mentioned before - the truly devastating warhead for V-2 may be the one, filled with N-stoff, chlorine trifluoride (assuming, of course, that Germans figured out some way to handle this horrible stuff without blowing the missile up several hundred times during preparation). When such warhead hit... well, it would basically create a localized firestorm. With the chlorine trifluoride, essentially everything - bricks, cement, iron, sand, water - would combust. Also, its extremely toxic - but since the toxic fumes could be considered a byproduct of incendiary reaction, Germans may claim that it is not de jure a chemical weapon.
