On: Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal

[comeonbro]

This reply was initially the common folk story:

    It's not comparing like with like, but the V-weapons programs probably cost about as much as the Manhattan Project.

But looking further into it, that claim holds up badly enough to completely drop it pending significant further research.

[delichon → comeonbro]

The Manhattan Project employed around 130,000 people compared to something like 17,000 on the V-2 project (plus 60,000 concentration camp prisoners). Cost comparisons are in the neighborhood of $1.9B for the A bombs versus $800M for the V-2.