Cray1 Anniversary Event September 21st 4570
Not only. Nuclear weapons were done without electronic computers. Women with Marchants and men with slides rules first did it. Thermonuclear weapons required computers.
Sorry, folks, couldn't resist...) Yes, there is a wonderful program, called TIME. Please be advised, though, that TIME is freeware, and thus carries no warranty. Use TIME at your own risk. That being said...
D.J. Of course, I agree. But he did post here, and the energy involved in the replies was twice the energy needed to simply give him an answer. Why not something like "This...
The majority of the truly intersting stuff is clbuttified. For an approximation to currency you want 2 volumes by Chuck Hansen. Most of the popular books by guys like Rhoades is purely historic and personal. The problem with the technical is asking the right questions about the evolution of the knowledge and testing by experiment. History would have you believe that 2 "methods" exist. That skips methods dropped before that point (small mention is made) and subsequent things learned from various methods like Edgerton's photos, instruments, etc. If you get stuff from the DOD, it's largely sugar coated for Congress and the Executive Branch CinC. When you start to think about the math, the geometric, conic sections, etc. Those are the tools. Hansen can give you a tiny bit of this less the math and some of the physics.
That says little of military thinking. You just have to hang with some of them (which you likely have). They are the brute force hammer of last resort.
How many megatons of conflict? WWII was less than .04 MT of nuclear material.
Didn't have good history teachers. What Cray really contributed to, we will likely never know. This is the visible stuff. --
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