The Imagineers of War
Book description
The definitive 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,…
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Author Sharon Weinberger spent four years researching and writing what she terms “a critical history of the agency and its legacy.” If you’re after a more skeptical treatment of DARPA and its claims to greatness that also covers the essentials of its origins along with some of its less-than-finer moments—especially during the Vietnam War—pick up this book.
Among other achievements, Weinberger got extensive interview time with Stephen Lukasik, the director who commissioned The Advanced Research Projects Agency: 1958–1974. “Is it a genius factory? A Pentagon boondoggle? A refuge for crackpots?” Weinberger asks in the book. “I do not have an…
From Michael's list on DARPA, America’s mad scientist agency.
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