

in Antoine Bosquet, “Cyberneticizing the American War Machine: Science and Computers in the Cold War”, p. Fred Kaplan, The Wizards of Armageddon, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984, p.His dream was to quantify every single factor of a strategic bombing campaign – the cost, weight, and payload of each bomber, its distance from the target, how it shouldfly in formation with other bombers and their fighting escorts, their exact routing patterns, the refueling procedures, the rate of attrition, the probability that something might go wrong in each step along the way, the weight and inaccuracy of the bomb, the vulnerability of the target, the bomb’s ‘kill probability,’ the routing of the planes back to their bases, the fuel consumed, and all extraneous phenomena such as the weather – and put them all into a single mathematic equation. The father of systems analysis, RAND researcher Ed Paxson, was symptomatic of this with the minutiae of his obsession in planning for World War III: Models grew to astonishing levels of complexity, fuelled by the desire to create an accurate simulation of conflict, a scientific understanding of a quite literal war machine.It seems plausible, therefore, that Einstein may have been quoting or paraphrasing an expression which he had heard or read elsewhere. “I dunno,” he said, “but in the war after the next war, sure as Hell, they’ll be using spears!” Joe Laitin reports that reporters at Bikini were questioning an army lieutenant about what weapons would be used in the next war. The earliest found was from “Quote and Unquote: Raising ‘Alarmist’ Cry Brings a Winchell Reply” by Walter Winchell, in the Wisconsin State Journal (23 September 1946), p. However, prior to 1948 very similar quotes were attributed in various articles to an unnamed army lieutenant, as discussed at Quote Investigator : "The Futuristic Weapons of WW3 Are Unknown, But WW4 Will Be Fought With Stones and Spears". Truman in "The culture of Einstein" by Alex Johnson, MSNBC, (18 April 2005). Another variant ("I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones") is attributed to an unidentified letter to Harry S. But I can tell you what they'll use in the fourth. Differing versions of such a statement are attributed to conversations as early as 1948 (e.g.
I DO NOT KNOW WHAT WEAPONS WORLD WAR III ARCHIVE

World War III (WWIII or Third World War) denotes a successor to World War II (1939–1945) that would be on a global scale, with common speculation that it would be likely nuclear and devastating in nature.

Do you know how many times we've come close to world war three over a flock of geese on a computer screen? ~ Alan Moore
