The imagineers of war : the untold history of DARPA, the Pentagon agency that changed the world
Weinberger, Sharon2017
Book
MILITARY HISTORY. The definitive history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency--the most authoritative account we have of the Pentagon agency that has quietly shaped war and technology for nearly sixty years. Founded in 1958 in response to the launch of Sputnik, DARPA has been responsible for countless inventions and technologies that have evolved from the agency's mission: forward-thinking solutions to the Pentagon's challenges. Sharon Weinberger gives us a riveting account of DARPA's successes and failures, useful innovations and wild-eyed schemes: we see how the nuclear threat sparked investment in computer networking, which led to the Internet, as well as plans to power a missile-seeking particle beam by draining the Great Lakes...how, in Vietnam, DARPA developed technology for the world's first armed drones and was also responsible for Agent Orange...
Main title:
Author:
Weinberger, Sharon, author
Work:
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2017]©2017.
Collation:
x, 475 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm.
Series:
Digital and information literacy
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780385351799 (hardcover)9780385351805 (ebook)
Dewey class:
355.040973355
LC class:
HG4751
Language:
English
Subject:
United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency -- HistoryMilitary research -- United StatesMilitary art and science -- Technological innovations -- United StatesScience and state -- United StatesNational security -- United States -- HistoryCrowd funding -- Juvenile literatureVenture capital -- Juvenile literatureNew business enterprises -- Finance -- Juvenile literatureSocial media -- Juvenile literatureUnited States -- Defenses -- History
BRN:
383912