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Four Hundred Million Dollar Estimate

United States of America · Warfare / Nuclear. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1942

Franklin Delano RooseveltDecember 1942

Washington · Warfare / Nuclear

Roosevelt approves a greatly increased Manhattan Project cost estimate of about 400 million dollars submitted through Vannevar Bush.

Names involved

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Provenance

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