Hitler's Atlantic Wall - $200 Billion
Ranker: The Biggest Military Wastes of Money
The staggering amount of money available to the US Armed Forces has resulted in wasteful military spending on a grand scale and some of the worst military spending in history. As technology changes and improves, new designs in tanks, planes, weapons, and vehicles have to be developed - all of which cost huge amounts. But the military is plagued by bureaucratic inefficiency, redundancy, procurement issues, changing priorities, and a process that simply takes too long.
As a result, the last 30 years are littered with futuristic, pointless military projects that never saw a day of action. Lasers, stealth ships, high-tech tanks and guns, communications systems, even uniforms - all have been developed at massive costs, and done little to nothing to keep the nation or its armed forces safe. The most egregious, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, might top out at $1.5 trillion - more than the GDP of all but 11 countries on earth - and it's never fired a shot.
WNU Editor: Hmmm .... nuclear weapons are not on this list (the MX is on the list but it is a missile system, not a nuclear weapon) ... and when one looks at the research, development, construction, and maintenance of nuclear weapons .... it is probably the greatest expenditure of money for a "project" that the world has ever seen.
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And the fallout of nuclear arms (no pun intended). Cheyanne Mountain and all the other ridiculously over the top precautions taken to survive nuclear confrontations. I can't imagine how much private citizens the world over have spent on private bomb shelters and provisions let alone governments.
Why don't we have an article about all the money spent on things that went right?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_Armory
Like this one James?
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