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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.

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