Manhattan Project

Boris Johnson is so convinced that mass testing is the only way to avoid a second national lockdown, he is said to have asked for an UK-wide organisational setup like the Manhattan Project, the top-secret wartime endeavour led by the US to develop a nuclear bomb. Only such a structure can deliver “the level of innovation/pace required” says one official document. “This is described by the prime minister as our only hope for avoiding a second national lockdown before a vaccine, something the country cannot afford,” one government official wrote about the project in late August.






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