That depends on what you compare it to.
Almost anything, i.e. the next generation accelerator[1] at CERN is about 15B CHF which is about 20B USD.
[1] https://home.cern/science/accelerators/future-circular-colli...
"quite literally everything else", well you got iter etc but those are on the same spectrum. It's rare that military projects in the US get that kind of funding.
Almost anything, i.e. the next generation accelerator[1] at CERN is about 15B CHF which is about 20B USD.
[1] https://home.cern/science/accelerators/future-circular-colli...