On American History tv on cspan 3. Week, american artifacts into archives and Historic Sites around the country. Next, we visit the National Cryptologic museum located just north of washington, d. C. , on the campus of the National Security agency. To learn about the making and breaking of secret codes and u. S. History. This is the first of a twopart program. Hello. Im patrick weadon. The curator of the National Cryptologic museum. I would like to welcome you. This is a museum that some people think is all about the National Security agency. That is certainly about nsa. But the purpose of this museum is to help people understand the Critical Role that cryptology has laid really from the beginning has played from the beginning of time. When we use the word cryptology we mean the making and breaking of codes. If you go back to history, you can find one example after another where the ability to get information from an adversary has been critical not only to the survival of nationstates
Program includes a look at the breaking of japanese diplomatic and naval codes in world war ii. Hello, im patrick weadon, the curator of the National Cryptologic museum. When we use the word cryptology, we mean simply the making and breaking of codes. During my time as curator ive noticed a trend, and its basically this. Many people come into this museum and they dont know what cryptology is, they really have no clue. But they leave highly impressed and the reason is because during the time that theyre here, they learn about some of the Amazing Stories about how throughout time individuals and organizations, nation states, have been able to get critical information from their adversaries and protect their own. And most importantly, theyve realized what was at stake, and the role that cryptology played in helping those entities to be successful. The discipline is one thats been incredibly important, and we have any number of interesting artifacts on display in the museum that were going
This job at the highest level of professionalism. This must be achieved before a sniper takes part in combat operation. One shot, one kill. United states army snipers. On american artifacts we toward the National Cryptologic museum on the campus of the National Security agency to learn about the making and breaking of secret codes. Next, a tour of the enigma exhibit, the film the imitation Game Features a story of mathematician alan turing who is credited with cracking the enigma code. This is our most popular exhibit. We have people who come from all over the world to see it. This is authentic german enigma machine. We have about five you can actually operate and people come from not only around the United States but around the world is a not only want to look at and enigma machine but you can actually operate this device and we are going to do that in just a second. The germans adopted this device as their main Battlefield Tactical Communications device because it has an amazing capa
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