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The imagineers of war : the untold history of DARPA, the Pentagon agency that changed the world
- Title
- The imagineers of war : the untold history of DARPA, the Pentagon agency that changed the world / Sharon Weinberger.
- Author
- Weinberger, Sharon
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
- ©2017
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Details
- Description
- x, 475 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Alternative Title
- Untold history of DARPA, the Pentagon agency that changed the world
- Subjects
- National security
- Military research
- Science and state
- United States > Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- National security > United States > History
- Military research > United States
- United States > Defenses > History
- Science and state > United States
- History
- United States > Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency > History
- Military readiness
- Military art and science > Technological innovations > United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [441]-451) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue: Guns and money -- An agency for unimagined weapons -- Scientia potentia est -- Mad men -- Society for the correction of Soviet excesses -- Mad scientists -- Welcome to the jungle -- Ordinary genius -- Extraordinary genius -- Up in flames -- A worldwide laboratory -- Blame it on the sorcerers -- Monkey business -- Bury it -- The bunny, the witch, and the war room -- Servants of war -- Invisible war -- Top secret flying machines -- Synthetic war -- Vanilla world -- Fantasy world -- Return of Voldemort -- Epilogue: glorious failure, inglorious success.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-1315
- ISBN
- 9780385351799
- 0385351798
- LCCN
- 2016017245
- OCLC
- 946610757
- Author
- Weinberger, Sharon, author.
- Title
- The imagineers of war : the untold history of DARPA, the Pentagon agency that changed the world / Sharon Weinberger.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [441]-451) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Weinberger, Sharon. Imagineers of war New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017 9780385351805 (DLC) 2016017718
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-1315