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The imagineers of war : the untold history of DARPA, the Pentagon agency that changed the world /

The history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon agency that has quietly shaped war and technology for nearly sixty years. Founded in 1958 in response to the launch of Sputnik, the agency's original mission was to create "the unimagined weapons of the future."...

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Main Authors: Weinberger, Sharon
Published: Alfred A. Knopf,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
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
Summary: The history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon agency that has quietly shaped war and technology for nearly sixty years. Founded in 1958 in response to the launch of Sputnik, the agency's original mission was to create "the unimagined weapons of the future." Over the decades, DARPA has been responsible for countless inventions and technologies that extend well beyond the military. Sharon Weinberger gives us a riveting account of DARPA's successes and failures, its remarkable innovations, and its wild-eyed schemes. We see how the threat of nuclear Armageddon sparke
Carrier Form: x, 475 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [441]-451) and index.
ISBN: 9780385351799 (hardback : alkaline paper) :
0385351798 (hardback : alkaline paper)
Index Number: U394
CLC: E712.9
Call Number: E712.9/W423-2
Contents: Prologue: Guns and Money -- Part I: An Agency for Unimagined Weapons. Scientia Potentia Est ; Mad Men ; Mad Scientists ; Society for the Correction of Soviet Excesses ; Welcome to the Jungle ; Ordinary Genius ; Extraordinary Genius ; Up in Flames ; A Worldwide Laboratory ; Blame It on the sorcerers ; Monkey Business ; Bury It ; The Bunny, the Witch, and the War Room -- Part II: Servants of War. Invisible War ; Top Secret Flying Machines ; Synthetic War ; Vanilla World ; Fantasy World ; Return of Voldemort ; Epilogue: Glorious Failure, Inglorious Success.

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