As best as I know this would still be classified as Top Secret - Q.
The cost of creating the atomic bomb was approximately two billion dollars.
5 billion
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.
That depends mostly on the instrumentation you want to collect data on the test blast. The bomb itself is cheap.
For America 5 billion dollars For Russia 1 favor
no, it saved at least an order of magnitude more lives than it cost
The reason was the cost and the amount of work put on the bomb.
It took the US 20 BILLION Dollars to develop the bomb.
It provided an alternative to the planned invasion of japan which would have cost thousands of lifes
Back in World War Two, the atomics costs were different to today’s cost in a sense since back them it was not only building the bomb but the research on how to get it done. The entire Manhattan Project in total cost more than 2 billion dollars in history records.
The first atomic bomb, produced by the ultrasecret Manhattan Project at a cost of $2 billion, exploded in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. The results were recorded and Truman was sure that such force will end Japan's capacity to make war.
A recent analysis suggested that re-creating the McDonalds double cheeseburger would cost approximately 94 cents. The cost to the company, however, is certain to be significantly less.