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Ananyo Bhattacharya — John von Neumann: The Man from the Future (EP.151)
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The Importance of Von Neumann in the Second World War
Von Neumann was an alien who got stranded here made a very close study of we humans and figured okay I can do this I can contribute to this barbaric culture. There are two fairly pivotal moments after the second world war where von Neumann quite openly supports a preemptive strike on the Soviet Union. This is so controversial that it's seen him as relegated to this backwater really of intellectual history when only really wants to touch him.
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