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The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of Darpa, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
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Armed ForcesWeaponry & VehiclesWeapons of Mass Destruction
Publisher Price: $22.99
ISBN13: 9780316371667
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: Jun 7 2016
Pages: 576
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.50 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
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.
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