Commentary Operation Warp Speed, created by former President Donald Trump’s administration, rates as a medical Manhattan Project. Within a year, Warp Speed developed at least three vaccines effective against COVID-19/the Wuhan virus. “Manhattan Project” has become slang for a chancy venture (e.g., a crash software development program) that succeeds in an astonishingly short time. The 1960s Apollo program to send humans to the moon and return them alive was occasionally called a peacetime Manhattan Project because Apollo produced and successfully employed revolutionary space technologies (plural) to achieve its goal inside a decade. In roughly three years, World War 2’s Manhattan Project produced atomic bombs, war-winning weapons that killed en masse. The Wuhan virus vaccines save people en masse. They have the power to spur economic revival. Let’s anticipate a historical question: Was Warp Speed a peacetime project? The U.S. space program had a significant military dimension, though the Apollo mission …