I remember when Boeing got an order for 1000 B-29s before they had ever assembled the first one...
It put 100,000 draft-ineligibles to work and wiped out a lot of test pilots getting the job done...
The B-29 was one of the greatest technological industrial leaps in history...
One of the key driving forces behind its development (so we could bomb those slant-eyed jap bastards directly) was the correlated decision to develop and deploy an atomic bomb...
Think the B-29 cost us double what the a-bomb development cost...
The B-29 was the bridegroom and the a-bomb(s) was the bride...
A marriage that saved millions of lives...
They (B-29s) were almost on their way to being judged a strategic failure until the Army finally put an ass-kicking MAGA-type American in charge...
That makes sense. A-Bombs are pretty simple devices if you think about it............