1. Who was Secretary of the Navy in 1950?
(a) Curtis LeMay.
(b) Francis Matthews.
(c) Douglas MacArthur.
(d) Dwight D. Eisenhower.

2. Who was President of the United States when the nuclear debate came to a head and a study resulted to determine how many bombs the U.S. actually had?
(a) Nixon.
(b) Roosevelt.
(c) Truman.
(d) Eisenhower.

3. What was the name of the Russian spy working in Britain that helped leak key nuclear information to help Russia become nuclear capable quicker?
(a) David Hilbert.
(b) Klaus Fuchs.
(c) Bela Kun.
(d) Kurt Godel.

4. John von Neumann worked with what company to help design a faster, more compact computer?
(a) International Business Machines.
(b) Nixdorf Computer Corp.
(c) Rand.
(d) Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp.

5. Who had John Stuart Mill briefly as a tutor?
(a) Hilbert.
(b) von Neumann.
(c) Russell.
(d) Nash.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which one of von Neumann's colleagues, though a left wing pacifist, joined with him in advocating preventative nuclear war against the Soviet Union?

2. What General believed it was justified to use nuclear weapons in Korea to prevent a North Korean and Chinese victory?

3. John von Neumann helped a company move its _____ computers to digital, stored binary computers.

4. Who publicly disavowed preemptive war after so publicly advocating this stance before?

5. Whose last work was an attempt to design a human brain based computer.

(see the answer key)

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