Henry Spencer wrote:

In article pip0g

Bear in mind that there are other types of weapons of mass destruction.
The British were immensely relieved when the warheads of the first V-2s
turned out to be just high explosive; they'd been worried about gas or
germs or radioactive isotopes.



They checked out the first V-1 impact site with a Geiger counter for
just that reason.

(And the Germans actually had a good non-nuclear payload for even fairly
inaccurate missiles, since they'd discovered the first nerve gases.)




They got as far as designing a chemical warhead container for the V-1;
this was to be designated the Fi 103 D-1 version.
They were never deployed, whether for Hitler's distaste for using
chemical weapons for warfare, or the fact that a lot of V-1's crashed
almost immediately after coming off their catapults is a good question.
One reason the Germans never used nerve gas during the war is that they
were wrongly convinced that the Allies had such weapons also.

Pat