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[Cyrien]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Good list Cyrien. Two minor nitpicks.

The original mechanical and electromechanical computers were actually being used to calulate artillery trajectories before the invention of ICBMs. But the principle is correct.

And nuclear power is one on your list that I believe the early research was in the area of power generation and later was harnessed for it's explosive potential. I could be wrong about that though. Maybe the early reactors were just about making enough useable material to build a bomb.

Yes. The scientiests were researching nuclear potential before WW2. But once it broke out they got all the money they could ever want. The first working nuclear generators did nothing but provide material for bombs, but they could have theoretically been used to provide power as well. In point of fact it is very likely that had WW2 not broken out actuall usable nuclear power and weapons would not have been around until many decades later. There is something to be said for crash military programs to make the ultimate weapon.

And yes you are right about the artillery projectiles as well for the first ones, but I am also right about the later ones and advances in them for more complicated ICBM calculations.

So YAY! to us.