The Making of the Atomic Bomb

"The Japanese assessment was essentially technological.  Like Bohr's assessment in 1939, it overestimated the difficulty of isotope separation and underestimated the U.S. industrial capacity. It also, as the Japanese government had before Pearl Harbor, underestimated American dedication. Collective dedication was a pattern of Japanese culture more than of American. But Americans could summon it when challenged, and couple it with resources of talent and capital unmatched anywhere else in the world." - Richard Rhodes The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Tough to read that paragraph and not think that maybe China may be making that same mistake today.