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I get $9,088.22 on an online inflation calculator. Although I do wonder whether uranium is included in the consumer price inflation index!

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I prefer to compare it to other industrial products.

1973 Ford F-100 (Sixth Generation): $2,889 - $17,387.85

https://www.thedrive.com/news/34333/heres-how-much-the-ford-...

Tho of course the end of decade added up to the inflation..

So would we also get an H-bomb then? Because a 2022 car is much, much more technologically advanced than a 1973 one.

Thermonuclear devices require complicated X-ray reflection modeling, ablation modeling, and some other very specialized stuff which barely even have open source libraries for this. There are some, still.

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