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Weinberger, Sharon.
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United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency -- History.
Military art and science -- Technological innovations -- United States.
Military research -- United States.
National security -- United States -- History.
Science and state -- United States.
United States -- Military policy.
United States -- Defenses -- History.
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Weinberger, Sharon.
United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency -- History.
Military art and science -- Technological innovations -- United States.
Military research -- United States.
National security -- United States -- History.
Science and state -- United States.
United States -- Military policy.
United States -- Defenses -- History.
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The imagineers of war : the untold history of DARPA, the Pentagon agency that changed the world / by
Sharon
Weinberger
.
by
Weinberger
,
Sharon
.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
Call #:
355.07 W423iw
Subjects
United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency -- History.
Military art and science -- Technological innovations -- United States.
Military research -- United States.
National security -- United States -- History.
Science and state -- United States.
United States -- Military policy.
United States -- Defenses -- History.
ISBN:
9780385351799 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Untold history of DARPA, the Pentagon agency that changed the world
DARPA, the Pentagon agency that changed the world
Description:
x, 475 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-451) and index.
Contents:
Prologue: Guns and money -- An agency for unimagined weapons -- Scientia potentia est -- Mad men -- Society for the correction of Soviet excesses -- Mad scientists -- 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 -- Servants of war -- Invisible war -- Top secret flying machines -- Synthetic war -- Vanilla world -- Fantasy world -- Return of Voldemort -- Epilogue: glorious failure, inglorious success.
Summary:
Founded in 1958 in response to the launch of Sputnik, the agency's original mission was to create the weapons of the future. Over the decades, DARPA has been responsible for countless inventions and technologies that extend well beyond military technology. 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 sparked investment in computer networking, leading to the Internet, as well as to a proposal to power a missile-destroying particle beam by draining the Great Lakes. We learn how DARPA was responsible during the Vietnam War for both Agent Orange and the development of the world's first armed drones, and how after 9/11 the agency sparked a national controversy over surveillance with its data-mining research. And we see how DARPA's success with self-driving cars was followed by disappointing contributions to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
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