The imagineers of war : the untold history of DARPA, the Pentagon agency that changed the world / Sharon Weinberger
- Author
- Weinberger, Sharon
- Additional Titles
- Untold history of DARPA, the Pentagon agency that changed the world
- Published
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Edition
- First edition.
- Physical Description
- x, 475 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- 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.
- Subject(s)
- United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—History
- United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Military research—United States
- Military art and science—Technological innovations—United States
- Science and state—United States
- National security—United States—History
- Military art and science—Technological innovations
- Military readiness
- Military research
- National security
- Science and state
- HISTORY / Military / United States
- SCIENCE / History
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Inventions
- United States
- United States—Defenses—History
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780385351799 hardcover
0385351798 hardcover - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [441]-451) and index.
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