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Re:Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100 by akiselev on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @09:10PM (#12553580)
He's likely thinking of the urban myth that over 10% of the US's power generation was used for the Manhattan Project [1] and confusing it with the cost of the project, for which estimates vary but is around $2 billion total (1945 GDP was $2 trillion).

[1] http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/APR11/Session/H13.4

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