On the morning of 8 September 1944, Germany introduced a new secret weapon to its already deadly WW2 arsenal. It came out of nowhere and caused a massive explosion in Paris. There was nothing to compare it to. The weapon was part of Germany's Wunderwaffe, its miracle weapons program, created in a last-ditch effort to shift the war's balance in the Third Reich's favor. The V2 rocket, nicknamed the Retribution Weapon 2, was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile. No defensive system