The Sword Unsheathed WMD's in WW2: A TL

Which kills its effectiveness.

Not at all. It is a long term area denial weapon, which makes it more effective than the chemical weapons.

Formaldehyde is very effective against Anthrax and is in the manual for cleaning it up.

1) It may be in the current manual, but as far as I can tell, it wasn't discovered to be effective for such ends until the 70s. [1]

2) Formaldehyde breaks down quickly outdoors, limiting it's usefulness.

3) Decontaminating large outdoor areas is going to be prohibitively expensive, as I pointed out much earlier in this thread.

4) Decontamination will also be very labor intensive, which may not be possible with out outside help.

Which if true, well the Germans will dump it back on Britain.

How will a country manage to dig up large quantities of it's topsoil and "dump it" anywhere?

And the winds take it back towards Britain and towards areas it isn't supposed to hit and the Germans immediately retaliate.

Trace amounts, at best, might be blown that far.

If Churchill gave such an order, he would have been removed. No one would have been crazy enough to follow such an order as it is far too likely to blow up in their faces.

That's really going to depend on the details of what leads to it and how it's carried out. If the process is "Germany just gassed some Poles, so we depopulated the country", then he could be. But if it's "V-1s loaded with sarin are landing in London, so we retaliated 'in kind' against Berlin", it's not.

That and America would institute an immediate quarantine of European and British Ships to prevent possible infected ships from entering its ports and refuse all trade with the Empire.

German shipping maybe, but the rest? No.
 
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