Guys, plural. So I cheated and looked it up - Kistiakowsky had a background in ordnance :) von Neuman's model was critical though , and may well have been near

Guys, plural. So I cheated and looked it up - Kistiakowsky had a background in ordnance :) von Neuman's model was critical though , and may well have been nearly pure invention. A lot of things like this in the present day are boring, path-dependent stuff. Takes a while to get up to speed.