The Pentagon's brain : an uncensored history of DARPA, America's top secret military research agency...
The Pentagon's brain : an uncensored history of DARPA, America's top secret military research agency...
The Pentagon's brain : an uncensored history of DARPA, America's top secret military research agency / Annie Jacobsen.
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Publisher
New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
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G 2016/2942
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
viii, 552 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
The Cold War : The evil thing ; War games and computing machines ; Vast weapons systems of the future ; Emergency plans ; Sixteen hundred seconds until doomsday ; Psychological operations -- The Vietnam War : Techniques and gadgets ; RAND and COIN ; Command and control ; Motivation and morale ; The...
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Publisher
New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2015.
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Summary
Since its inception in 1958, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has grown to become the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science research and development agency. Created by President Eisenhower to prevent another Sputnik, and to focus primarily on defensive programs against nucle...
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Full title
The Pentagon's brain : an uncensored history of DARPA, America's top secret military research agency / Annie Jacobsen.
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Uncensored history of DARPA, America's top secret military research agency
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-536) and index.
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G 2016/2942
Record Identifier
74VKVq36KVOM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVq36KVOM
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ISBN
9780316349475
9780316371766 (hbk.)
0316371769 (hbk.)
031634947X
DDC
355.070973
MMS ID
991024007493102626
