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The cold war was the largest project undertaken by any civilization in human history in terms of spending. With Sweden on board with NATO, defence contractors a

The cold war was the largest project undertaken by any civilization in human history in terms of spending. With Sweden on board with NATO, defence contractors and other NATO adjacent public private partnerships can be assured that they won't interfere with that flow of funds.

ethbr1 3y ago
We did get the Internet, space programs, satellite-based sensing, phased array radar, MAD theory, and some other stuff out of the spending.
- guappa 3y ago
  And it costed us 100x more than if we just put the money into science directly! YAY!
  - ethbr1 3y ago
    :) Politics decides funding allocation in a democracy. And it's a lot easier to justify military spending than it is research. Same reason NASA is the way it is, but we still have a space program.
    - euroderf 3y ago
      see: Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility & Desirability of Peace.