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Edward Luttwak: Darpa, 1 December 2016
The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of Darpa, America’s Top Secret Military Research Agency
by Annie Jacobsen.
Little, Brown, 560 pp., £12.99, September 2015,978 0 316 34947 5 Show More
by Annie Jacobsen.
Little, Brown, 560 pp., £12.99, September 2015,
“... through the carriers, from flight deck to keel. That, by the way, is what the Chinese would do too.Annie Jacobsen’s book sets the stage by reviewing the major pre-Arpa innovations, notably nuclear weapons, computers and ballistic missiles, before telling Arpa’s story from its 1957 foundation. Early on she gets one episode wrong – and it’s an ... ”
