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The entire Manhattan project was developed on about $22B in 2024 dollars.
by atemerev 2y ago
The entire Manhattan project was developed on about $22B in 2024 dollars.
- spicybbq 2y agoIs it a fair comparison? The Manhattan project spent 3 years building a single-digit number of bombs 80 years ago, versus 30 years of building submarines, stealth bombers, and missiles to deliver a couple of thousand nuclear warheads.
- FooBarBizBazz 2y agoThat depends on official inflation numbers, which are low only because of cheap imports from China. Anything that has to be built in America -- houses, metro lines, nuclear weapons -- has gone up about 12%/year with the S&P 500. There was a ~1.8x bump between the start of COVID and now, and now things are looking more like 15%/year to me. Which makes the half-life of money only five years.