The world's oldest original still-working digital computer has been unveiled at the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park, the home of the United Kingdom's Second World War encryption and ...

The Colossus that beat the Nazis: Never-before-seen pictures of world's first-ever digital computer that remained a secret for 60 years after it was dreamed up by British boffins to defeat Hitler ...

When WWII broke out on Sept. 1, 1939 with Germany's invasion of Poland, few could have expected the technological leaps that would occur over the next six years. The true lasting impact of the ...

Before the Second World War, computors were people, and during the war, due to it being a low-status job and the desire to free up men for combat duty, it was usually done by women. In this case ...

During the Second World War, Von Neumann was a consultant to the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, and was heavily involved in the intensive mathematical calculations needed to design the atomic bomb.

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ...

The world had come within a hair's breadth of nuclear war, and no one outside Petrov's chain of command even knew about it until 1998. Petrov had been right to distrust the new computer system, it ...

In the second world war, some diplomacy was done between the sheets Pamela Churchill, daughter-in-law of the prime minister, ran an effective charm offensive. Share.

T HE SECOND WORLD WAR sparked decades of scholarship. By one count, 70,000 books had already been published by 1989. The 80th anniversary of the end of the war, both in Europe and Asia, ...