Next time we need a project the size of A-bomb, we might also pull some people from academia and industry. Then they will take some obscure area of research on

Next time we need a project the size of A-bomb, we might also pull some people from academia and industry. Then they will take some obscure area of research on Prevalence of Memetics in Mating Habits of Extinct Species of Dung Beetles done 50 years ago by an old fart with tenure (and his 20 underpaid grad students) and build a psychodelic control system that can quickly and efficiently enslave and zombiefy large human populations. TLDR: you never know what you'll need in the future. The only correct way is to research everything and we need a system for that.