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Source? Estimates I see for the Manhattan Project from a quick google range from .25% to .41% of GDP. [0] https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL34645.pdf https://
by rory096 10y ago
Source? Estimates I see for the Manhattan Project from a quick google range from .25% to .41% of GDP.
[0] https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL34645.pdf https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL34645.pdf
[1] http://mitchellhowe.blogspot.com/2006/02/want-manhattan-project-take-number.html http://mitchellhowe.blogspot.com/2006/02/want-manhattan-proj...
[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.09054.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.09054.pdf
- akiselev 10y agoHe's likely thinking of the urban myth that over 10% of the US's power generation was used for the Manhattan Project [1] and confusing it with the cost of the project, for which estimates vary but is around $2 billion total (1945 GDP was $2 trillion). [1] http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/APR11/Session/H13.4 http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/APR11/Session/H13.4
- bsder 10y agoI'm also referring to the fact that estimates put in that almost 1 in 11 people in the US were involved in some facet of atomic bomb development. The point being that atomic bomb development required a gigantic commitment.