> The Manhattan project was an exploration into a fundamental (and, without trying to sound ungenerous, a relatively simple) property of physics, put towards a

> The Manhattan project was an exploration into a fundamental (and, without trying to sound ungenerous, a relatively simple) property of physics, put towards a relatively simple task. The laws of nature defined the constraints, and requirement was singular. Your points here don't square with what I know. Have you read the Wiki page on it and found something incorrect?