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We're gonna be talking about the sage computer network

cost more than the Manhattan Project,

the first ever networked computer system.

Of course it was going to be in charge of weapons, but it never quite

materialized. Tell us about it, what is the Sage Computer Network? Take us

through it. Yeah, so Sage was developed after World War II and the ironic thing, you know, you mentioned that

sage costs more than the Manhattan Project and it's true, and it was also created to defend

against the end result of the Manhattan Project, right?

So we spent all this money on nuclear weapons and World War II ends, 1945.

We have the monopoly in the United States on the atomic weapon, but we also had the

monopoly on the atomic weapons delivery system.

And I don't think that's something a lot of people realize is that until 1947 or

1948, the Soviets didn't even have a bomber that could cross the ocean.

So the United States felt pretty safe and secure with our existing air defenses from World War

II, which was localized radars at different military sites that would point the guns in the right direction to shoot down enemy bombers.

But there were no enemy bombers, so that wasn't really a threat.

But then 1949, the Soviets test their nuclear weapon

and by then they had a bomber that could theoretically reach the US.

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