How Much Did You Know About Shannon's Information Theory?

i would read scientific american every month, and there was an article by shannon and weaver in scientific american on information theory. Warren weaver was the head of the rockefeller foundation during the war. He spread around the idea of information theory as as a breakthrough idea. And then i knew turring's paper, and and i knew ofa shannon's work on Information Theory. But why was game theory there? Welle theory was there because von nermann comes up with a mixed strategy,. which means a good way to work on some games is to toss a coin, you know, with certain probabilities. So he has this footnote asking his questions, and he