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How Los Alamos used ENIAC for Monte Carlo bomb simulations
Original: Los Alamos bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo simulations, 1947–1948 (2014) [pdf]
A 2014 paper recounts how Los Alamos scientists turned ENIAC, one of the first electronic computers, to Monte Carlo simulations of nuclear weapons between 1947 and 1948. The work helped establish probabilistic computer modelling as a core method in physics and engineering. Readers are sharing the paper as a classic piece of early computing history.
Why now: The paper is being shared among readers interested in computing history and the origins of Monte Carlo methods.
Los Alamos National LaboratoryENIACMonte Carlo method
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