Tangentially, and coincidentally (from the last page of the PDF) - Von Neuman in 1956 wrote Since then, the complexity and the sophistication of the weap

Tangentially, and coincidentally (from the last page of the PDF) - Von Neuman in 1956 wrote Since then, the complexity and the sophistication of the weapons business has been increasing very rapidly from year to year. I should like to mention, as an example of this, the phase of com- puting machines. It is probably true that since 1945 the over-all capacity of these machines has nearly doubled every year. Note the preview, by almost a decade, of Moore's law, AND the fact that computers and defense seem linked forever. [1] Defense in Atomic War, John von Neumann, Ordnance, Vol. 40, No. 216 (MAY-JUNE 1956), pp. 1090-1092 (3 pages) [1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/45360902 https://www.jstor.org/stable/45360902