The story from Command and Control that sticks in my head is how, a few months after WW2 ended, the Truman Administration wanted to get an exact count of how m

The story from Command and Control that sticks in my head is how, a few months after WW2 ended, the Truman Administration wanted to get an exact count of how many A-bombs the U.S. had available in their inventory. The answer came back from Los Alamos, "Hmm, we could probably put together one or two in a couple weeks." This quickly led to a crash program in standardization of atomic (and later, nuclear) weapons and increasing their shelf-life.