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It will focus in particular on John Neumann&#8217;s three obsessions: computing, game theory, and the bomb. The RAND computer will sometimes be called JOHNNIAC (John von Neumann Numerical Integrator and Automatic Computer). Game theory at RAND will be applied to the attempt to avoid a nuclear war, or survive it, if it were unavoidable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force launches Project RAND (Research And Development\u2014although some jokingly call it Research And&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-as-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>March 1, 1946 - Cronologia Universale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cronologia-universale.it\/en\/march-1-1946\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"March 1, 1946 - 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