Why do you believe the Manhattan project cost about $3.3T? Quick googling yields ~$20B in 2007 dollars.
Edit: further googling shows WWII costs about ~$4T, so maybe you confused the two numbers? I’m pretty surprised that the Manhattan project is only ~1% of the cost of WWII, so maybe something is going on.
You’re right, I was confusing World War costs with Manhattan project costs, sorry about that. (I didn’t really think about it, I mostly went “$3.3T, yup that’s completely out of the question” and posted the comment.)
Why do you believe the Manhattan project cost about $3.3T? Quick googling yields ~$20B in 2007 dollars.
Edit: further googling shows WWII costs about ~$4T, so maybe you confused the two numbers? I’m pretty surprised that the Manhattan project is only ~1% of the cost of WWII, so maybe something is going on.
You’re right, I was confusing World War costs with Manhattan project costs, sorry about that. (I didn’t really think about it, I mostly went “$3.3T, yup that’s completely out of the question” and posted the comment.)
I’m getting my numbers from this appendix to this report.
Looking at https://usafacts.org/data/topics/economy/economic-indicators/gdp/gross-domestic-product/?adjustment=Inflation it looks like the USA’s GDP in 1944 was $3.1T in 2019 dollars, so the Manhattan project (even spread over four years) couldn’t be anywhere near $3.3T.