> There's no guarantee it's a solvable problem. With the Manhattan Project we knew it was feasible and how to do it, all we needed was engineering. I mean, the

> There's no guarantee it's a solvable problem. With the Manhattan Project we knew it was feasible and how to do it, all we needed was engineering. I mean, the Manhattan project wasn't about trying to figure out how to harness nuclear power, it was about how to deliver a nuclear explosion. getting some energy out of fission was never really a particularly hard problem once we understood what was going on (it's literally so easy that it's a problem), getting it to explode from a package you could load into a b-52 was the harder problem. The difference isn't really about what we know is possible, it's that unlike fission, making a fusion bomb is easier than making fusion power, so the military funding dried up before it made much progress, like a person's interest in a porno once the fun part is done.