I mean, no horse in this race or anything but sometimes there are informal reasons why a project gets funded. Getting the five-star to sign off some of their b

I mean, no horse in this race or anything but sometimes there are informal reasons why a project gets funded. Getting the five-star to sign off some of their budget on something new and uncertain may require the backroom, unpublished message passed, 'because nukes make go boom'. I'm all for the founding fathers of the internet asserting that it wasn't a cold war imperative, on citeable paper, but that doesn't out-of-hand invalidate somebody's assertion that the culture motivating grant funding in the halls of defense at the time was continuity of government or C&C during the armageddon that everyone was anticipating.