Why aren't there at least ten Manhattan projects going on

Who says there aren't 10 Manhattan projects going on right now? It's not like we would know.

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Tax reformist who push 'opt in' or more discrete public voting on where tax dollars are probably the only way we'll see more public 'moonshot' and other such things get attempted/funded.

All the public can do is sorta hope the DoE Ignition facility , Lockheed Skunkworks, or whatever university someday reaches sustained fusion. If shown how much money/political energy is wasted on 'climate change' and 'green energy' I think the public could be encouraged to dump it instead into applied physics research to actually solve the issue at it's core...


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True.
You can at least infer some of the levels of spending with all the DoE 'national labs', doing projects for the DoD, and staffed by SAIC and their ilk ... atop normal military spending like Lockheed where it's intentially difficult to decouple what the dollars ultimately get spent other than $500mm+ per plane contracts.

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Agreed, DOD/DOE should be on it. My experience in the last two years has been the labs playing games and compromising natl security. Tried to warn the higher ups but was blackballed... oh well... Waiting for the whole thing to blow, now...