alt Hacker News>A "Manhattan Project" would be building some shocking new technology that didn't previously exist.
I think that both Germany and USSR were not in the least shocked ... just the USA had the resources to finish it.
>A "Manhattan Project" would be building some shocking new technology that didn't previously exist.
I think that both Germany and USSR were not in the least shocked ... just the USA had the resources to finish it.
Well, USSR did finish, just 4 years later.
Maybe it was because we had all those immigrants working on it (e.g. Albert Einstein, Hans Bethe, and John von Neumann)!