I dislike Trump on principle and from the other side of the fence. I am a natural born 'big government' person. From my side of the fence, the one thing Trump said which made sense was: "there are 15 good candidate vaccines: we are pursuing all of them"
That is exactly how the manhattan project ran: Thermal Diffusion, Gaseous Diffusion, Centrifuge and Calutron were all followed up, and it wound up that Thermal fed Calutron to increase yield but gaseous diffusion and centrifuges are what we use now. The point here is that they didn't penny-pinch "which one is better" they did them ALL
That is exactly how the manhattan project ran: Thermal Diffusion, Gaseous Diffusion, Centrifuge and Calutron were all followed up, and it wound up that Thermal fed Calutron to increase yield but gaseous diffusion and centrifuges are what we use now. The point here is that they didn't penny-pinch "which one is better" they did them ALL