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Towards the end of the article is this:

Upon learning about the scale of the project in 1944, Niels Bohr told Edward Teller: “I told you it couldn’t be done without turning the whole country into a factory. You have done just that.”

Another perspective: during World War 2, about 1 in every 250 Americans worked for the Manhattan Project at some point.




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