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MAUD Report (1941) estimates for the cost of an atomic bomb. Aside from being off by a significant margin (£8.5m in 1941 = $40m USD in 1945 = off by a factor of 30 or so), it's interesting that there's also a "bang for the buck" justification included by comparing to TNT.pic.twitter.com/2oNWgjDyM8
(The exact factor of error depends on what final price you compare it to. To entire Manhattan Project, which includes Pu bombs, it is off by 50X. To just Oak Ridge — U bomb only — it is 30X. To just K-25, it is "just" 13X off. But K-25 alone wouldn't have made a bomb in time...)
also it's kind of amazing that the numbers were based on make **36** bombs at 1.8 kt apiece
I’m sure you are aware the bang for buck calculations don’t end there. There’s a declassified document from the 60’s that explains a math formula for deciding when it is cost effective to use nukes.
right, but it's interesting that the "bang for the buck" argument literally started in the first serious "how would we build one" document
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