Well, the Manhattan Project started modestly in 1939, and had produced two types of atomic bombs by 1945, plutonium and U-235. The total cost of the project was "nearly US$2 billion (equivalent … (View Post)

Partly on topic: The 2006 Senate election in Connecticut was won by Joe Lieberman, after he lost the first two contests. He lost the convention endorsement of the Democratic Party by a large margin t… (View Post)

Off topic, but so funny I have to share it. Near the beginning of a long Washington Post article on the pre-war failures of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in Ukraine is this single-senten… (View Post)

Andy_JS - It is absolutely true that Trump owes some of his support to problems that weren't addressed. For example: During the Obama years, life expectancy fell: "The average life expectan… (View Post)

rcs1000 said: "There's a lot of evidence that candidates without political experience do - on average - worse that seasoned politicians." Let me extend that: There's a lot of evid… (View Post)