Bibliograph

The imagineers of war, the untold story of DARPA, the Pentagon agency that changed the world, Sharon Weinberger

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Label

The imagineers of war, the untold story of DARPA, the Pentagon agency that changed the world, Sharon Weinberger

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-451) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The imagineers of war

Responsibility statement

Sharon Weinberger

Sub title

the untold story of DARPA, the Pentagon agency that changed the world

Summary

Sharob Weinberger gives us the riveting and definitive 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, DARPA'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. From a proposal to power a missile-destroying particle beam by draining the Great Lakes, to Agent Orange, to the internet and neural implants intended to treat PTSD and depression, Weinberger chronicles DARPA's successes and failures, its remarkable innovations, and its wild-eyed schemes

Target audience

adult

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