The Pentagon's brain : an uncensored history of DARPA, America's top secret military research agency / Annie Jacobsen.
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : Back Bay Books, 2016Copyright date: ©2015Edition: First Back Bay trade paperback editionDescription: viii, 552 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0316371661; 9780316371667Other title: Uncensored history of DARPA, America's top secret military research agencySubject(s): United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency -- History | Military research -- United States | Military art and science -- Technological innovations -- United States | Science and state -- United States | National security -- United States -- History | United States -- Defenses -- History | United States -- Military policyDDC classification: 355/.070973 LOC classification: U394.A75 | J33 2016Summary: In this penetrating history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency, Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos to paint a picture of "the Pentagon's brain" from its Cold War inception in 1958 to the present. This is the essential book on DARPA--a compelling narrative about the clandestine intersection of science and the American military and the often jaw-dropping, futuristic, and frightening results.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-536) and index.
In this penetrating history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency, Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos to paint a picture of "the Pentagon's brain" from its Cold War inception in 1958 to the present. This is the essential book on DARPA--a compelling narrative about the clandestine intersection of science and the American military and the often jaw-dropping, futuristic, and frightening results.
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