Towards the end of the article is this: Upon learning about the scale of the project in 1944, Niels Bohr told Edward Teller: “I told you it couldn’t be done wi

Towards the end of the article is this: Upon learning about the scale of the project in 1944, Niels Bohr told Edward Teller: “I told you it couldn’t be done without turning the whole country into a factory. You have done just that.” Another perspective: during World War 2, about 1 in every 250 Americans worked for the Manhattan Project at some point.