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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

It involved building stealth aircraft to deliver these precision weapons unseen by any enemy radar, and designing intelligence and reconnaissance systems that would target for them. Smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth. But this new strategy was more than making the bombs smarter.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

Stanford’s research on the earth’s ionosphere would lead to meteor-burst communication systems and Over the Horizon Radar used by the NSA and CIA to detect Soviet and Chinese missile tests and ultimately to the research that made Stealth technologies possible. Skip the next section if you’re a history major.) Meanwhile the U.S.

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The Road Not Taken

Steve Blank

government kept up the pace. to build sensors, stealth and smart weapons previously thought impossible or impractical, would give us a major military advantage. From a standing start in 1942 the U.S. scaled up the production of U-235 and plutonium from micrograms to tens of kilograms by 1945. During the cold war, the U.S.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

You succeed in convincing one company and a government to adopt computers and learn to code much faster than their competitors /adversaries. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies. Which is why large clusters exist in the cloud, or the largest companies/ government agencies.) Carpe Diem.