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The imagineers of war : the untold history of DARPA, the Pentagon agency that changed the world
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Title
The imagineers of war : the untold history of DARPA, the Pentagon agency that changed the world / Sharon Weinberger.
ISBN
9780385351799
0385351798
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
Copyright Notice Date
©2017.
Physical Description
x, 475 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Variant and related titles
Untold history of DARPA, the Pentagon agency that changed the world.
Other formats
Online version: Weinberger, Sharon. Imagineers of war New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 27, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [441]-451) and index.
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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Genre/Form
History.
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