Quantum Defense – The Race to Military Applications of Fundamental Science

The first superpower to harnesses quantum science will achieve military super-powers, Defense One reports: unbreakable communication security, and quantum supercomputers much more powerful than today’s machines. As usual, the race is between the US and China. Defense Undersecretary Frank Kendall said: Much like autonomy, quantum sciences is an area that could yield fundamental changes in military capabilities. A Billion-Fold Increase in Defense Computing Power Quantum computers are “as different from regular computers as humans are from jellyfish.” While traditional computers encode information in classical bits that are in well-defined states – on or off, zero or one – quantum computers …

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