The imagineers of war, the untold history of DARPA, the Pentagon agency that changed the world, Sharon Weinberger
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The imagineers of war, the untold history of DARPA, the Pentagon agency that changed the world, Sharon Weinberger
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [441]-451) and index
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illustrations
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
The imagineers of war
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bibliography
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946610757
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Sharon Weinberger
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the untold history of DARPA, the Pentagon agency that changed the world
Table Of 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
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Untold history of DARPA, the Pentagon agency that changed the world
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- Science and state -- United States
- National security -- United States -- History
- SCIENCE / History
- Military art and science + Technological innovations -- United States
- HISTORY / Military / United States
- United States, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Inventions
- Military research -- United States
- United States -- Defenses -- History
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- Military art and science + Technological innovations -- United States
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- United States, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
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