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The Manhattan Project employed nearly 130,000 people at its peak and cost nearly US$2 billion (equivalent to about $27 billion in 2023), [1] over 80 percent of which was for building and operating the plants that produced the fissile material. Research and production took place at more than 30 sites across the US, the UK, and Canada.
The total cost to the United States for World War II was approximately $3.3 trillion.) All bombs, mines and grenades — $31.5 billion Small arms materiel (not incl. ammunition) — $24 billion
Jul 3, 2024 · Manhattan Project: cumulative costs by facility 1945. Cumulative costs of the Manhattan Project until December 31, 1945, by facility (in 1,000s of U.S. dollars)
Aug 9, 2024 · Aug 9, 2024. From August 1942 until 1945, almost 1.9 billion U.S. dollars was spent on the development of the world's first nuclear weapons through the Manhattan Project. This included...
May 17, 2013 · Of the $2 billion spent on the Manhattan Project, where did it go, and what does it tell us about how we should talk about the history of the bomb? Here is a breakdown of cost expenditures for the Manhattan Project sites, through the end of 1945:
Its wartime cost ($2 billion 1945 USD, around $30-50 billion USD today, depending on the conversion factors used) was more impressive at the time than it is in the context of later American military expenditures (for comparison, the most expensive wartime project by the United States was the research and production of the B-29 Superfortress, whi...
Jul 26, 2017 · The Manhattan Project was started in response to fears that German scientists had been working on a weapon using nuclear technology since the 1930s—and that Adolf Hitler was prepared to use it...
