Interesting bits of history here.
Russia only had 10 000 computers in 1986?
That is fascinating.
I had at that time already written
my first little professional computer app,
and the following year wrote my first networked app.
I was still in high school.
...........
But if you trust the opinion on this subject of somebody
who still suffers calculus nightmares ... well ...
Let me just expose the obvious misinformation,
as there is far too much here to even begin to address it all.
The soviets did not 'develop fission bombs using calculus'.
They stole the technology for nuclear weapons
by infiltrating the homosexual community of Cambridge university.
(Just like they stole Russia from the Czars).
But its also vital to see WHY so much misinformation around nuclear
technology exists. Obviously if the precise truth of how to construct
such devices became common knowledge, there would be a serious security
problem for everyone.
However, most of such misinformation actually predates nuclear technology
and originates as a paranoid fear, when it became clear that
bombs were getting bigger and bigger in the first half of the 20th century.
So exposing the lies does not endanger anybody.
In fact, perpetuating the lies is one of the major reasons
why the world is continually degenerating psychologically,
and blatant pseudo-science is the norm in quackademia these days.
Calculus nightmares developed nukes?
