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- 1Los Alamos's early Monte Carlo nuclear simulations on ENIAC▼Los Alamos bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo simulations, 1947–1948 (2014) [pdf]
A 2014 paper recounts how Los Alamos scientists used the ENIAC computer in 1947–1948 to run Monte Carlo simulations for nuclear weapons research. The work, involving figures such as Nicholas Metropolis and Stanislaw Ulam, marked an early milestone in computational physics and the use of random sampling to model complex probabilistic problems.