> say nothing of decades more of people being maimed and killed by our cluster bomblets left all over the country. Not to mention the millions of people devast

> say nothing of decades more of people being maimed and killed by our cluster bomblets left all over the country. Not to mention the millions of people devastated by Agent Orange. The fact that the specialists warned the US military of these effects and it didn't stop them from poisoning the population for generations is mind boggling. How did these people rationalize their actions? Anyway - there's no possible price tag for that. Your point of comparison is correct; the space race as a whole was about the best- and cheapest-case scenario for a "war"