First the US cancels all science funding to Fermilab’s Tevatron and subsequently loses the Quest for the Holy Boson to the LHC, and now all of a sudden they have money to reignite advanced quantum research?
NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption - Steven Rich, Barton Gellman - Washington Post
According to documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the effort to build “a cryptologically useful quantum computer” — a machine exponentially faster than classical computers — is part of a $79.7 million research program titled “Penetrating Hard Targets.”
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-seeks-to-build-quantum-computer-that-could-crack-most-types-of-encryption/2014/01/02/8fff297e-7195-11e3-8def-a33011492df2_story.html
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