ISBN: 0316371653 9780316371650

Category: History / Military / United States

Page count: 560

<b>Discover the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, in this Pulitzer Prize finalist from the author of the <i>New York Times </i>bestseller <i>Area 51</i>.</b><b><br></b>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, <i>New York Times</i> 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. <br><br>This is the book on DARPA -- a compelling narrative about this clandestine intersection of science and the American military and the often frightening results.