> massive construction plans that can't fit into a single person's head They fit great in von Neumann's head. You realize the first nuclear reactor took 18 mo

> massive construction plans that can't fit into a single person's head They fit great in von Neumann's head. You realize the first nuclear reactor took 18 months to build? Without accidents. I think you are underestimating just how much brains the Manhattan Project had. Plutonium bomb wasn't even the state-of-the-art when it was dropped, it was just what von Neumann considered Yankees to be capable of pulling off. The economics of the Manhattan Project were unbelievable. Crazy return on investment for tax dollars, just insanity, like I don't know, 1000-to-1 return in ten years. Nobody knows it exactly, in fact the problem "How many piano tuners are there in Chicago?" comes from the Manhattan Project problem "How many kilotons of TNT did the Trinity Bomb produce?" They ended WW2, biggest war in History. And you can't respect that?