5. The Germans may have one of two reasons for postponing the launching of BIGBEN. They may either:(a) Be faced with a physical limitation of which we have no knowledge and thus be unable to use the weapon effectively or with safety. Our knowledge of the projectile and all the processes involved in production and operation is still so incomplete that such limitations would be likely to be unknown to us. or (b) While able in fact to launch BIGBEN now, they may have decided only to launch the operation at greater intensity.
- Collection ID
- CAB81
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Belgium France
- Document Reference
- CAB 81/124/38
- Document Types
- Report
- File Reference
- CAB 81/124
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.cab81.0124.038
- Keywords
- Secret Weapons Rockets Predicting Enemy Intentions Informants
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Chiefs of Staff Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee
- Pages
- 2
- Persons Discussed
- Victor Cavendish-Bentinck Adolf Hitler Francis Inglis Edmund Rushbrooke John Sinclair Geoffrey Vickers
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Weapons Technology Nuclear Warfare Military Intelligence
