Topic: Military

The first computers were built to serve as tools in the arsenal of warfare and national defense. This episode of Do Not Fold covers the emergence of computers during World War Two, and a new kind of warfare: war without men.

Ithiel De Sola Pool, head of the political science department at MIT, talks about the Vietnam War and the history of widespread violence in village societies.

A public lecture by Gen. Frank L. Hawley, who served as commandant of the American sector of Berlin after World War II, includng personal recollections of Berlin after the war, and his encounters with the Russian military and members of communist party.