The Hershey-Chase experiment was designed to prove that DNA is the genetic material in organisms. In this experiment, two batches of viruses were grown in two separate media A and B, with A having an abundance of nutrients involving $\ce{^32_15P}$, and B having a lot of $\ce{^35_16S}$.
Leaving solution B aside, we have $\ce{^32_15P}$ undergo a beta decay:
$$\ce{^32_15P -> ^32_16S + e- + \bar{\nu_e}}$$
This process releases $\pu{1.709 MeV}$ of energy, which is quite sufficient to break apart the phosphodiester linkages.
With all the phosphorus in the viral DNA being radiolabelled, this would very well break apart all the phosphodiester linkages. and give us a soup of sulfur-based nucleosides. In such a case, how come this hasn't affected the virus' mechanism to transfer the DNA to a host cell?