The Pentagon's brain : an uncensored history of DARPA, America's top secret military research agency / Annie Jacobsen

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Object Details

author
Jacobsen, Annie
Subject
United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency History
NMAH copy purchased with funds from the NMAH Library Endowment.
Contents
Prologue -- Part I. The Cold War. The evil thing -- War games and computing machines -- Vast weapons systems of the future -- Emergency plans -- Sixteen hundred seconds until doomsday -- Psychological operations -- Part II. The Vietnam War. Techniques and gadgets -- RAND and COIN -- Command and control -- Motivation and morale -- The Jasons enter Vietnam -- The electronic fence -- The end of Vietnam -- Part III. Operations other than war. Rise of the machines -- Star Wars and tank wars -- The Gulf War and operations other than war -- Biological weapons -- Transforming humans for war -- Part IV. The War on Terror. Terror strikes -- Total information awareness -- IED war -- Combat zones that see -- Human terrain -- Part V. Future war. Drone wars -- Brain wars -- The Pentagon's brain
Summary
"In this penetrating history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R & D agency, Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos to paint a picture of "the Pentagon's brain" from its Cold War inception in 1958 to the present. This is the essential book on DARPA--a compelling narrative about the clandestine intersection of science and the American military and the often jaw-dropping, futuristic, and frightening results"--Back cover
2016
Type
Books
History
Physical description
viii, 552 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Place
United States
Title
Uncensored history of DARPA, America's top secret military research agency
Smithsonian Libraries
Topic
Military research
Military art and science--Technological innovations
Science and state
National security--History
Defenses
History
Military policy
Record ID
siris_sil_1104820
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0