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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1228664, member: 66&quot;]I had a post on that exact same psychological angle written and then decided not to post it.&nbsp; I had heard the same theory and they probably is some merit to it since the amount of copper diverted was miniscule compared to the amount the country typically consumed.&nbsp; Switching the cent to steel saved some 3200 tons of copper.&nbsp; Sounds like a lot, but when they decided to use silver instead of copper for the winding of the electromagnets separating the U 235 in the atomic bomb project, that was 15,000 tons.&nbsp; So all the copper saved on the cent would have just done one fifth of the electromagnets on the Manhatten project.&nbsp; (Typical annual consumption is in the millions of tons.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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