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Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of the American military base known as Area 51, providing insights from nineteen men who served at the base for decades, along with intelligence personnel, scientists, pilots, and engineers linked to the base, and discussing formerly classified information, the testing of nuclear weapons, the building of supersonic jets, and the pursuit of the War on Terror.
3) The Pentagon's brain: an uncensored history of DARPA, America's top secret military research agency
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Since its inception in 1958, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has grown to become the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science research and development agency. Created by President Eisenhower to prevent another Sputnik, and to focus primarily on defensive programs against nuclear weapons, the agency--and its imagination and scope--has expanded enormously with each passing year....
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