The Imagineers of War : The Untold History of DARPA, The Pentagon Agency that Changed the World
by Weinberger, Sharon
Edition statement:1st Published by : Alfred A. Knopf (New York) Physical details: 475 Pages 24X16 cm | HB ISBN:9780385351799.| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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General Stacks | Non-fiction | 355.040 W415T 2017 (Browse shelf) | Available | 58650 |
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The 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, the agency'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. Sharon Weinberger gives us a riveting account of DARPA's successes and failures, its remarkable innovations, and its wild-eyed schemes. We see how the threat of nuclear Armageddon sparked investment in computer networking, leading to the Internet, as well as to a proposal to power a missile-destroying particle beam by draining the Great Lakes
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