Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120323:20:46:00
Student, he concedes of the idea of a digital computer that can do anything if you sort of give it the right instructions, the right code. and making this real and practical was a very difficult technical problem that was worked on by large numbers of people and happened to be -- i focus on one particular group of people who were trying to solve these nuclear problems, and they needed a machine that would do this at very, very high speeds, and they did an amazing job of putting it together very quickly. >> and so was it that the need was that to test the hydrogen bomb, there was no way of actu...