War By Numbers: Computers, Nuclear Weapons, and the Arms Race

George Washington University, Washington DC

Investigators

Abstract

SES 99-11203 - Anne C. Fitzpatrick (George Washington University) "War by Numbers: Computers, Nuclear Weapons, and the Arms Race" This project embodies a comparative history of computing in the American and former Soviet nuclear weapons programs. This award supports travel to and research at several scientific institutions and archives through-out North America, Russia, Ukraine, and Armenia, as well as interviews with numerous participants in the nuclear weap-ons communities. This research will provide the scholarly basis for a book that will be published by a university press. This study will greatly enhance public understanding of the role of technology in the nuclear arms race, and in science and society.