The Pentagon's Brain - An Uncensored History of DARPA, America s Top secret Military

Informationen zum Autor Annie Jacobsen is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Area 51 and Operation Paperclip and was a contributing editor at the Los Angeles Times Magazine. A graduate of Princeton University, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons. The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51 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 this first-ever, in depth account of the organization, New York Times 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. This is the book on DARPA-- a compelling narrative about the clandestine intersection of science and the American military and the often frightening results.

Product details

• Authors: Annie Jacobsen, Jacobsen Annie
• Publisher: Little Brown USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9780316371766
• ISBN: 978-0-316-37176-6
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 243 mm x 43 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; USA, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage, HISTORY / United States / General, HISTORY / Military / United States, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science, HISTORY / Military / Strategy, United States of America, USA, Espionage & secret services, Military administration, History of the Americas, Espionage and secret services, Theory of warfare and military science, Theory of warfare & military science