This was a very important part of the war. If the Germans had got it first there would have been a different outcome. The biggest leaps in technology advancement happen because of the need to out do each other in war.
This was a very important part of the war. If the Germans had got it first there would have been a different outcome. The biggest leaps in technology advancement happen because of the need to out do each other in war.
Nuclear weapons were definitely strategically important. But one should remember that a nuclear weapon is useless unless it can be delivered to its target. The Luftwaffe was nearly completely destroyed by 1945. V2 was not operational and the launch sites of V1 missiles from where a V1 carrying a nuclear bomb could be launched with, say, London as its target were in Allied hands by that time. Of course, Hitler was anxious to destroy whatever he could, including Germany itself when the end was near, so German possession of nuclear weapons would've been extremely dangerous at any stage of the war.
Earlier attainment of nuclear weapons by the Nazis would probably have changed the course of the war. The Nazi's anti-semitism really bit them in the arse because they had driven many top physicists out of the country before the war because they were Jewish.
I have visited some of the V1 and V2 rocket sites in France. The site is called La Coupelle. Worth a visit as it has been done properly. There is a bunker nearby which is still 90 percent intact. The same guy who designed the bouncing bomb developed a bomb that takes out foundations. This is what they used on this large bunker.