Is the Manhattan Project a Private Contracting Thing?

The state recognizes there's a problem, creates an incentive big enough to find the solution. That incentive can be big enough to cause people to get different degrees than they would otherwise seek. It wasn't private contractors that solved it, because the government had made the incentive. The largest jumps we ever made in did not happen in the market for the most part.

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