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by tzahola 2919 days ago
Maybe if Germans had not wasted their engineering efforts on idiotic “superweapons” like the Schwerer Gustav [0] or the 130m long V-3 cannon [1], they could have succeeded with their nuclear program.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-3_cannon

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There's something hilariously ironic about that, given the next couple of decades.
Given what?
The Cold War and how nukes turned out to be a much greater superweapon than anything the Germans built.