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Technology progresses fastest during wartime.

Without WW2 and Enigma, who knows when, or even if, computers might have developed? 20 years later, 40?

Technology of the airplane went from the first 200kts monoplanes, through to the hard limits of propeller aviation, and the birth of jets and rocketry by the end of the war.

Without the development of tacho bomb sights (eg Norden and Mk XIV), mass bombing would not have been worthwhile, as it was too inaccurate. They would lead to inertial guidance systems, enabling the ICBM.

Technology was the enabler of most of those deaths.




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