Tangentially, and coincidentally (from the last page of the PDF) - Von Neuman in 1956 wrote

    Since then, the complexity and the
  sophistication of the weapons business
  has been increasing very rapidly from
  year to year. I should like to mention,
  as an example of this, the phase of com-
  puting machines. It is probably true
  that since 1945 the over-all capacity of
  these machines has nearly doubled every
  year. 

Note the preview, by almost a decade, of Moore's law, AND the fact that computers and defense seem linked forever.

[1] Defense in Atomic War, John von Neumann, Ordnance, Vol. 40, No. 216 (MAY-JUNE 1956), pp. 1090-1092 (3 pages)

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/45360902