When Kennedy said America would put a man on the moon, the goal had a finish line. The whole thing cost about $280bn in today’s money and employed 400,000 people at its peak, but everyone knew that once Armstrong took his small step, that particular race would be over. Likewise, the math of annihilation set limits for nuclear weapons. Once you had enough bombs to obliterate your enemy several times over, building more became pointless.
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