Afaik there is no direct way to check this. In my experiences uninitialized shaderconstants can behave very strange, e.g. One system drawed my scene all fine with an uninitialized texture, because tex2D returned simply black. But on another system the whole scene looked awful, because it returned other values then 0.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.