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*position of the ship. It was the most armored of all and in that plotting room we had enormous charts with all the variables that went into the firing problem. And anything you could put in there… the logistics were broken down into two things: the internal and external ballistics. And the internal ballistics were all the things that happened before you fired the gun. And the external were all the things that happened to the missile after the gun was fired. You could get all the previous… temperature, what the wind was blowing, direction, speed of your ship, keeping track of the speed of another ship, all those things were in there. Suddenly then, we had to get this… and there was a spotting problem. You’re only firing still at visible range in those days. Five thousand yards; you’re talking about three miles, five miles, ten miles. Ten miles was a very long one.
“Anyway, having learned what I just learned… immediately after World War I a series of things happened. We learned to scramble all the radio. We had never dared send messages by radio. But then we radioed information coded and ciphered, but you really didn’t send any strategic ones. But the messages couldn’t go any faster than the coding. For this reason the authority in”
