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>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.
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Is that so?
The Leipzig-IV reactor in Germany achieved neutron propagation in the middle of 1942, Fermi did that at the end of the same year in the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipzig_L-IV_experiment_accident

Were historians disagree is what happened after that.
Most will claim that Germany just stomped all atomic efforts after an accident occurred at the facility, some say that it became a black project after that.
Which would make sense, seeing that other atomic projects were obviously top secret too.
You be the judge

Undoubtedly the allies during the war believed that they were in an atomic race with Germany, they sabotaged heavy water facilities in Europe for instance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage
After the war the allies then claimed that Germany never really tried, many of the "investigators" were Jews, who often want to claim certain technological developments form themselves, like the electron microscope.

Last I will say this: What a coincidence that a submarine surrendered to the US which was intended to bring secret weapons to Japan along with an engineer who US sources themselves admit developed fuses for nukes, right?