Ruth
The Living Force
A couple of things I'd like to know about Alan:
1) Was his death and accident, suicide or murder? He died of cyanide poisoning. Could it have been an accidental suicide? There seems to be so much speculation about this. His mother didn't think it was an accident.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-18561092
2) How much of Alan's work was responsible for winning the war? In one of the You Tube presentations I watched, one of his former colleagues said "It was a good thing the military didn't know he was homosexual, or we wouldn't have won the war.' (because he would never have been allowed to work on those projects, or given many jobs that he held). A very suspicious and homophobic society.
I would like to know exactly how much influence he had over the outcome of the war? In the movie, (The Imitation Game), it comes across as if he may have had a big part to play and may have been responsible for wining the war, even though there is a great deal of evidence to suggest that much creative license has been taken.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/12/03/the_imitation_game_fact_vs_fiction_how_true_the_new_movie_is_to_alan_turing.html
By the way, I would recommend the movie 'The Imitation Game' . My favourite line: During the discussion between Alan Turing, Joan Clarke and Stewart Menzies (Head of MI6) Telling the head of MI6 that they needed his help and that 'no-one can know' (that they've broken the Enigma code) and that he needed to come up with plausible explanations for successes and those successes would be based on mathematical computations :
Stewart Menzies (MI6): "Maintain a conspiracy of lies to the highest level of Government?" (suspenseful pause as he lights a cigarette) "Sounds right up my alley".
1) Was his death and accident, suicide or murder? He died of cyanide poisoning. Could it have been an accidental suicide? There seems to be so much speculation about this. His mother didn't think it was an accident.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-18561092
2) How much of Alan's work was responsible for winning the war? In one of the You Tube presentations I watched, one of his former colleagues said "It was a good thing the military didn't know he was homosexual, or we wouldn't have won the war.' (because he would never have been allowed to work on those projects, or given many jobs that he held). A very suspicious and homophobic society.
I would like to know exactly how much influence he had over the outcome of the war? In the movie, (The Imitation Game), it comes across as if he may have had a big part to play and may have been responsible for wining the war, even though there is a great deal of evidence to suggest that much creative license has been taken.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/12/03/the_imitation_game_fact_vs_fiction_how_true_the_new_movie_is_to_alan_turing.html
By the way, I would recommend the movie 'The Imitation Game' . My favourite line: During the discussion between Alan Turing, Joan Clarke and Stewart Menzies (Head of MI6) Telling the head of MI6 that they needed his help and that 'no-one can know' (that they've broken the Enigma code) and that he needed to come up with plausible explanations for successes and those successes would be based on mathematical computations :
Stewart Menzies (MI6): "Maintain a conspiracy of lies to the highest level of Government?" (suspenseful pause as he lights a cigarette) "Sounds right up my alley".
