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It was 1959 and the Cold War was escalating steadily, moving from a state of palpable sustained tension toward the overt threat to global peace to be posed by the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis – the closest the world has ever come to nuclear war. Quite by chance, I found myself thrust into this vortex, involved in top-level espionage work. I would soon write the software for the world’s first spy satellite.
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Gustafson, K. (2012). 4. Computers and Espionage. In: The Crossing of Heaven. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22558-1_4
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