The History of Terrorism
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"Firing tables aren't simple, one-page sheets but thick booklets with hundreds of variables in the equations."
"Firing tables were of such vital significance that both the navy and the army funded separate efforts to build automated calculators-all in the service of aiming giant killing machines-and help develop the first digital computers in the process."
"The ENIAC didn't come fast enough to help with the war, but it stayed in operation for nearly a decade, crunching firing tables, running atomic bomb calculations, and building weather models of the Soviet climate, including mapping the potential spread...
1945-? ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)