Comment by adventured
6 years ago
The Manhattan Project moved along remarkably quickly. From the time 56,000 acres were authorized for purchase at Oak Ridge, to the Trinity test, was under three years (September 1942, July 1945).
In 5.x years id Software built and released: Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Doom 2, Quake, Quake 2.
The B-29 Superfortress--the bomber that dropped both atomic bombs on Japan--took longer and cost more money to develop than the Manhattan Project.