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>>15451135
Him

"history's smartest man" speaking like a retrad (only clip of him that exists)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLbllFHBQM4

Formerly >>12771755

>>12276021
Yes, he posted this thread for example. Search the archives for "von numale" for more posts.

>>12185420
>Von Neumann, four other scientists, and various military personnel were included in the target selection committee that was responsible for choosing the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as the first targets of the atomic bomb. Von Neumann oversaw computations related to the expected size of the bomb blasts, estimated death tolls, and the distance above the ground at which the bombs should be detonated for optimum shock wave propagation and thus maximum effect. The cultural capital Kyoto, which had been spared the bombing inflicted upon militarily significant cities, was von Neumann's first choice, a selection seconded by Manhattan Project leader General Leslie Groves. However, this target was dismissed by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson.

>After the war, Robert Oppenheimer remarked that the physicists involved in the Manhattan project had "known sin". Von Neumann's response was that "sometimes someone confesses a sin in order to take credit for it."

>During a Senate committee hearing he described his political ideology as "violently anti-communist, and much more militaristic than the norm". He was quoted in 1950 remarking, "If you say why not bomb [the Soviets] tomorrow, I say, why not today? If you say today at five o'clock, I say why not one o'clock?"

>>9740485
nothing johnny did was as original as relativity
>inb4 autistic screeching about some random italian homo who scribbled e=mc in a paper or something

Why are you spamming the same garbage thread about poor little mr potato head?

look at him
look at his potato face