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The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency - Annie Jacobsen 2015 EPUB
Pages: 560 |ISBN 10: 0316371769,ISBN 13: 9780316371766|7.67mb
The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51
No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. In the first-ever history about the organization, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos to paint a picture of DARPA, or "the Pentagon's brain," from its Cold War inception in 1958 to the present.
This is the book on DARPA--a compelling narrative about this clandestine intersection of science and the American military and the often frightening results.
Since its inception in 1958, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has grown to become the Defense Department’s most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science research and development agency— “the Pentagon’s Brain.”
Created by President Eisenhower to prevent another Sputnik, and to focus primarily on defensive programs against nuclear weapons, the agency—and its imagination and scope—has expanded enormously with each passing year.
From Agent Orange in Vietnam to insect-sized drones in use today, from the earliest networked computers and the Internet to smart rockets and war zones under twenty-four hour video surveillance, DARPA is responsible for innovations that have changed the course of war, national security and strategic planning at the highest levels.
Thousands of scientists and engineers have been engaged for decades in a technological arms race, using battlegrounds to test their science. The results have changed the way we fight and the world we know. |
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