Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State

At the beginning of the twentieth century, two British inventors, Arthur Pollen and Harold Isherwood, became fascinated by a major military question: how to aim the big guns of battleships. These warships-of enormous geopolitical import before the advent of intercontinental missiles or drones-had to shoot in poor light and choppy seas at distant moving targets, conditions that impeded accurate gunfire. Seeing the need to account for a plethora of variables, Pollen and Isherwood built an int...