The Manhattan project had a huge impact but it was not that big as far as efforts in the war went (they managed to hide the budget allocated to the project from most of congress, for example).
It was like 0.5% GDP. It wasn’t insane, but still, you are right.
It was very focused. What do we get out of the F-35 program? By comparison, it has eaten (projected total lifetime cost) 2 trillion dollars. It is 4.5% of the GDP. I had no idea. This is just a military and government contractor subsidy. What are we doing…
