Monster Essays - Analysis Of The Machine That W
“The Machine That Won the War,” by Isaac Asimov, is a story that
teaches a valuable lesson about humanity and also has an ironic twist at the
The setting is the future of Earth, and a great war had just been won
against an enemy race. Two men, Swift and Henderson, are debating over
who really won the war for Earth: the giant strategy computer known as
Multivac, or the men in charge of making the maneuvers and programming
the computer. John Henderson is an excitable man, while Lamar Swift, the
military captain, is calm but rational. While the people hailed the computer,
the two really knew who the heroes were.
Henders....
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