Alan Turing

Bletchley Park: The Imitation Game

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It was fortuitous that I visited Bletchley Park at the same time as The Imitation Game is in theaters, because parts of the movie were actually shot there. The production crew meticulously recreated several sets, and even better, left them up after the shoot. I’m not sure if they will be a permanent fixture, but I thought … Read more

Bletchley Park: Breaking The Enigma

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The sine qua non of the war effort at Bletchley Park was the need to break the German Enigma machine. The Enigma was basically a mechanical cipher machine that was used by every German military (and some civilian) sectors  to transmit messages about troop movements, bombings, battle plans, Uboats, and other German war tactics. The … Read more