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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.