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The Manhattan project had a huge impact but it was not that big as far as efforts in the war went (they managed to hide the budget allocated to the project from
by rcxdude 7mo ago
The Manhattan project had a huge impact but it was not that big as far as efforts in the war went (they managed to hide the budget allocated to the project from most of congress, for example).
- brohee 7mo agoYeah and some of the figures often quoted like consuming 14% of the electricity produced in the US are wrong, it was below 1%. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011APS..APRH13004R/abstract#:~:text=In%20his%201987%20autobiography%2C%20Major,being%20generated%20in%20the%20United https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011APS..APRH13004R/abstra...
- bitexploder 7mo agoIt was like 0.5% GDP. It wasn’t insane, but still, you are right. It was very focused. What do we get out of the F-35 program? By comparison, it has eaten (projected total lifetime cost) 2 trillion dollars. It is 4.5% of the GDP. I had no idea. This is just a military and government contractor subsidy. What are we doing…
- fluoridation 7mo agoThat's $ 2 trillion over the course of 20 years, so by your own numbers 0.23% of GDP.