Word: analogy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Simulated Nations. Wright-Patterson's electronic "air war simulator," developed by Brigadier General Leighton I. Davis, head of the Air Force's Institute of Technology, is based on a rarefied kind of mathematics: the Von Neumann theory of games. It is essentially an analog computer (a tangle of vacuum tubes) that can be set up to simulate two warring nations, each with its cities, factories, fuel dumps, pipelines, air bases, stocks of bombs and fleets of bombers and fighters. All these elements are linked together electronically through the computing circuits. Damage to an "airplane plant" reduces the replacement...