Re:Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaqu...
by dwattttt on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @02:30AM
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I didn't have budgets handy, but GDP is another way to normalise its cost to the country; ~$2.2B cost in 1942 with a nominal GDP of $166B, nominal GDP of $29.2T in 2024 puts the Manhattan Project's cost relative to GDP at $386B in 2024.
Nominal GDP from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_statistics_of_the_Uni...