Interestingly Charles M. Herzfeld once chaired the Nuclear Weapons Council and the Intelligence R&D Council. According to Wikipedia, apparently "Taylor had con

Interestingly Charles M. Herzfeld once chaired the Nuclear Weapons Council and the Intelligence R&D Council. According to Wikipedia, apparently "Taylor had convinced ARPA director Charles M. Herzfeld to fund a network project earlier in February 1966, and Herzfeld transferred a million dollars from a ballistic missile defense program to Taylor's budget". This budget probably equivalent to tens of millions USD in today's money. The narrative "to link computing centres across the country so that resources could be shared and collaboration would be easier" using a large chunk of budget from ballistic missile systems that could carry nuclear warheads that were distributed across the country does not make sense to me.