The Silent Arms Race: The Role of the Supercomputer During the Cold War, 1947-1963
Journal: Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science
Year: 2012

One of the central features of the Cold War is the "Arms Race." The United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist republics vied for supremacy over the globe for a fifty-year period in which there were several arms races; atomic weapons, thermonuclear weapons and various kinds of conventional weapons. However, there is another arms race that goes unsung during this period of history and that is in the area of supercomputing. The other types of arms races are taken for granted by historians and