Re:The price of the Manhattan Project (2013)
by michaelcampbell on Sunday December 09, 2018 @12:20PM
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> The US program was expensive in part because they were trying to do it as quickly as possible,
The US also was trying to just do it, whereas the USSR had the benefit of stolen research.
A program that just pursued plutonium production and separation to produce implosion devices would presumably be a lot cheaper (though still massively expensive in absolute terms, obv).