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John von Neumann - Politics and social affairs | | John von Neumann - Politics and social affairs: Encyclopedia II - John von Neumann - Politics and social affairs | | Von Neumann had experienced a lightning-like academic career similar to the velocity of his own intellect, obtaining at the age of twenty-nine one of the first five professorships at the newly born Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (another had gone to Albert Einstein). He seemed compelled, therefore, to seek out other fields of interest in order to satisfy his ambitious personality, and he found this outlet in the collaboration (some might say, collaborationism) with the Military-industrial complex. He was a frequent consultant for the CIA, ...
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John von Neumann - Politics and social affairs
Von Neumann had experienced a lightning-like academic career similar to the velocity of his own intellect, obtaining at the age of twenty-nine one of the first five professorships at the newly born Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (another had gone to Albert Einstein). He seemed compelled, therefore, to seek out other fields of interest in order to satisfy his ambitious personality, and he found this outlet in the collaboration (some might say, collaborationism) with the Military-industrial complex. He was a frequent consultant for the CIA, the US Military, RAND Corporation, Standard Oil, IBM and others.
During a Senate committee hearing, he once described his political ideology as, in his own words "violently anti-communist, and much more militaristic than the norm." As President of the so-called Von Neumann Committee for Missiles at first, and as a member of the restricted Commission for Atomic Energy later, starting from 1953 up until his death in 1957, he was the scientist with the most political power in the US. Through his committee, he developed various scenarios of nuclear proliferation, the development of intercontinental and submarine missiles with atomic warheads, and the highly controversial strategic equilibrium called Mutually Assured Destruction. In a word, he was the mind behind the scientific aspects of the Cold War which conditioned the Western world for forty years.
He died, tragically but perhaps ironically, of bone cancer contracted through exposure to the radiation of the atomic tests conducted at Bikini Atoll in 1946, tests whose security for observers he had so tenaciously defended so many years earlier.
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