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- 9780316371766
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316371769
ISBN-13
9780316371766
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208628711
Product Key Features
Book Title
Pentagon's Brain : an Uncensored History of Darpa, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
Number of Pages
560 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Public Policy / Military Policy, Military Science, Military / Strategy, Military / United States, Military / Biological & Chemical Warfare, Security (National & International)
Publication Year
2015
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Technology & Engineering, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.8 in
Item Weight
29.5 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-304581
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"Jacobsen's account will serve as the model for histories of military research and development and is likely to lead to more works and articles about DARPA.... Engrossing, conversation-starting read..."-- Library Journal, One of The Washington Post's Notable Nonfiction Books of 2015 One of The Boston Globe's Best Books of 2015 One of Amazon's Top 100 Books of 2015 "Annie Jacobsen's considerable talents as an investigative journalist prove indispensable in uncovering the remarkable history of one of America's most powerful and clandestine military research agencies. And she is a great storyteller, making the tantalizing tale of The Pentagon's Brain -- from the depths of the Cold War to present day -- come alive on every page."-- Gerald Posner, author of God's Bankers, "Jacobsen offers a definitive history of the clandestine agency.... She explores the implications of DARPA work on technology that will not be widely known to the public for generations but will certainly impact national security and concepts of war."-- Vanessa Bush, Booklist (starred review), "Annie Jacobsen has a gift for unearthing secret, long-buried information."-- Mary Ann Gwinn, Seattle Times, "In this fascinating and terrifying account, Annie Jacobsen regales us with the stories behind the agency's 'consequential and sometimes Orwellian' innovations, including autonomous weapons systems--killer robots that could decide, without human intervention, who lives and who dies."-- Bryan Schatz, Mother Jones, "A fascinating and sometimes uneasy exploration of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency...."-- Dina Temple-Raston, The Washington Post, "With Annie Jacobsen's OPERATION PAPERCLIP for the first time the enormity of the effort has been laid bare. The result is a book that is at once chilling and riveting, and one that raises substantial and difficult questions about national honor and security...This book is a remarkable achievement of investigative reporting and historical writing."-- Boston Globe, "An exciting read that asks an important question: what is the risk of allowing lethal technologies to be developed in secret?"-- Ann Finkbeiner, Nature
Dewey Decimal
355/.070973
Synopsis
A Pulitzer Prize Finalist and the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51 . 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., A Pulitzer Prize Finalist and the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51 . 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., NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Pulitzer Prize Finalist and the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51 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.
LC Classification Number
U394.A75J33 2015
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