Comment by vlovich123
18 hours ago
> No one has yet found any war-like purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity or quantum mechanics, and it seems very unlikely that anybody will do so for many years.
G.H.Hard. Eureka, issue 3, Jan 1940
Less than 100 years later, we stand waiting for nuclear bombs guided by GPS to be launched when the authorization cryptographic certificate is verified.
Nuclear weapons (based on quantum mechanics and special relativity) were used less than 6 years after that quote.
And number theory was critical to breaking enigma. So they were all used within 5 years.
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