Wartime science...

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Letters to the Editor
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January 24 2015

Wartime science...
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Sir, Ben Macintyre’s excellent article ( Jan 23 ) fails to mention one
crucial piece of scientific history. At the end of the Second World War
Churchill threw away a chance for Britain to lead the way in the
development of computers by disbanding the team at Bletchley Park and
ordering the computers themselves to be destroyed. Tom Flowers, who built
Colossus, went back to his telephone work, and although Alan Turing wanted
Flowers to work with him on computers he was not allowed to reveal why
Flowers was the right man for the job. So Flowers stayed with the
GPO..../snip/

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