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		Apocryphon on Dec 26, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Working at Apple (2011) Okay, then replace the Enigma reference with the Manhattan Project, an operation so secret the military built a city isolated from the world for it.

coldtea on Dec 26, 2020 [–]

Yeah, while that was even less important in winning WWII (the Germans were done for, and the Japs were just grasping at straws, uterly defeated), it was hugely important for the cold-war period, and probably forever.

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