The Manhattan Project kept track of expenses down to the cent, but the total ended up adding up to a perfect dollar.pic.twitter.com/sXLHr6DQWx
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@wellerstein So the whole shebang cost $21 Billion in today's dollars....
@gbrumfiel Depends how you do the deflator — I prefer production line labor, which puts it at $30bn — see http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2013/05/17/the-price-of-the-manhattan-project/ … — but yeah