0·
1 year agoHe was literally an Anti-Communist.
Von Neumann entered government service primarily because he felt that, if freedom and civilization were to survive, it would have to be because the United States would triumph over totalitarianism from Nazism, Fascism and Soviet Communism.[77] 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?”[391][392]
Your labour is appreciated, fellow proletariats.