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I presume you already have a known-good (i.e. working and tested) bomb design, and sufficient weapons-grade bomb fuel (U-235/Pu-239 and possibly H2/H3 and or other exotics). I'll group the weapons into a couple of categories, based on their manufacturing difficulty.
There are two cost estimates given for each category: the first assumes you
already have the manufacturing equipment needed, and are only buying materials (other than the bomb fuel), while the second assumes you must also acquire the machinery needed to make the bomb parts, and/or obtain some the bomb parts commercially.
Crude A-bomb: This category is exclusively the very basic "gun-type" Uranium-fuel fission weapon, with yields of < 10k; they have a a moderate probability (maybe 1 in 2 or 1 in 3) of working properly. You would need access to a professional-quality machine shop. $20,000 if you have access to one, or maybe $100,000 to buy access/custom order parts from suppliers.
Functional A-bomb: This category includes all pure fission weapons, constructed with a very high-quality parts. Here you get a U-based weapon of < 30kT, or a Pu-239 implosion weapon of 20-50kT, with a relatively high level of reliability (90%+): $1 million, or $10-20 million if you have to acquire the high-tolerance machine tools and custom electronics.
Functional Advanced Weapon: This included boosted (H2/H3) fission weapons,
hydrogen fusion weapons, and hybrid fission-fusion-fission weapons, with yields from 300kT to 5 MT. $2-5 million, or $100+ million to get the manufacturing capability.
See the related question below, if you are looking for a discussion as to how expensive/complex it is to design a bomb, build the infrastructure required to produce the nuclear fuel, and then test and manufacture a reliable weapon.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 13y agoThis depends largely on the size of the bomb, but for a GP 500lb HE bomb, maybe 25,000 USD.
Actually, the above overstates the cost considerably. A general-purpose 500 lbs iron bomb (no guidance) such as a Mk 82 costs under $300 each. Dumb bombs are dirt cheap, as they consist of little more than a simple metal shell filled with a common explosive filler, and a simple fuse.
Other common bombs such as napalm, incendiary, white phosphorous, or the like are slightly more expensive, but not drastically so.
Guidance packages which are bolted on to iron bombs can costs considerably more, however. The GBU-12 package for the above 500 lbs bomb costs around $19,000.
Specialty bombs such as the MOAB, thermobaric (fuel-air), ICM (improved conventional munitions) or the like can be rather expensive, even without a guidance package. They quickly run into the 10s of thousands per bomb.
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∙ 14y agoThat depends on who is selling it, who is buying it, and whether or not it is a Black Friday sale at Walmart.
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∙ 14y agojust a guess 99999999999999999999999999999999
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∙ 13y agoDepends on the bomb. Anywhere from a few dollars to a few million dollars.
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∙ 11y ago$50,000
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How much did the atomic bombs uses in world war 2 cost?
they were 2.000 dollars each
How much did the atomic bombs 'Little Boy' and 'Fatman' weigh?
The Manhattan Project itself cost over 3 billion dollars. That includes the research and enrichment of uranium. I believe each bomb cost around 30 million dollars. This is mainly due to the amount of silver used in the bombs. Since we have found cheaper material to use.
More people were killed in air raids than by the two atomic bombs but it was the atomic bomb that was condemnedwhy do you think this is?
More people were killed in air raid because they were used more as the atomic was hard to make and cost more money so using more normal bombs more often would have been cheaper even thought the atomic bombs were a) more powerful, and, b) even thought they killed more people the air raids were more particle.
How much money was wasted on the atomic bomb dropped in japan?
It cost $20,000,000,000 to build the 4,680 bombs in 1945. Two of them were the ones dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
How much did it cost to build the atomic bombs that landed in Japan?
The cost to completely develop the nuclear weapon from the beginning of the war until 1945 cost America $20 billion. This includes the money they needed for research, materials, plants, and people. The bombs themselves cost $5 billion each, essentially making them the most expensive bombs to ever be dropped. Citation: Hewlett, Richard and Oscar Anderson. The New World: A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission Vol. 1 1939-46. (Oak Ridge, Tennessee: USAEC Technical Information Center, 1972), pages 723-724.
How much did the atomic bombs uses in world war 2 cost?
they were 2.000 dollars each
Did it cost less to drop the atomic bombs?
In fact, it did on counting the human price against the dollar price.
Why did the americans decide to drop the atomic bomb in japan?
The US dropped atomic bombs to end the war.If they didn't, The US would have had to invade Japan. That would have cost hundreds of thousands of American lives.So they dropped two atomic bombs that killed hundreds of thousands of innocent civilian lives.
What was the exact cost of the atomic bombs in World War 2?
It took the US 20 BILLION Dollars to develop the bomb.
How much would it cost today to build an atomic bomb today like the one US dropped on Japan?
The first atomic bombs cost billions because they had to learn how to gather uranium and plutonium into a form that was good enough for a bomb and they had to design the bomb. Now a nuclear missile cost would be probably about a million or more. The cost of the newer missile is in the housing and maintenance of the missile.
How much money would it have cost to continue fighting World War 2 rather than dropping the atomic bombs?
1,000,000,000
How much did the atomic bombs 'Little Boy' and 'Fatman' weigh?
The Manhattan Project itself cost over 3 billion dollars. That includes the research and enrichment of uranium. I believe each bomb cost around 30 million dollars. This is mainly due to the amount of silver used in the bombs. Since we have found cheaper material to use.
More people were killed in air raids than by the two atomic bombs but it was the atomic bomb that was condemnedwhy do you think this is?
More people were killed in air raid because they were used more as the atomic was hard to make and cost more money so using more normal bombs more often would have been cheaper even thought the atomic bombs were a) more powerful, and, b) even thought they killed more people the air raids were more particle.
Why does an atomic bomb cost 23 billion?
It doesn't. The Manhattan Project cost $2 billion, but most of that was for infrastructure not bombs themselves. The 3 devices detonated in WW2 probably cost no more than $1 million each to make. Modern bombs probably cost much less than that. However actual cost figures are still classified.
How much money was wasted on the atomic bomb dropped in japan?
It cost $20,000,000,000 to build the 4,680 bombs in 1945. Two of them were the ones dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
How much was spent on the atomic bombs during World War 2?
The US spent 2 billion dollars on the Manhattan Project during WW2, almost all of this was on infrastructure not bombs themselves. Each of the bombs themselves probably cost on the order of a million dollars, although no exact costs have been declassified.
How do you prevent nuclear fallout in an atomic explosion?
You can't, it is always generated. However "clean" fusion bombs can be designed that reduce the fallout compared to a conventional fusion bomb of the same yield to about 5%. However the cost to build these "clean" bombs is significantly higher per megaton of yield than conventional fusion bombs.
