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82) The Pentagon's brain: an uncensored history of DARPA, America's top secret military research agency
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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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While leading a team of young engineers designing Starfire, the world's first orbiting solar power plant, James McLanahan Bradley is caught in the middle of a battle that threatens to become an all-out global war for control of space after the U.S. President ignites an arms race.
"With the death of his heroic father, bomber and space warfare veteran Patrick McLanahan, Bradley McLanahan must now fly solo, leading a team of young engineers designing...
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The Center for the Study of Intelligence of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) presents the full text of the 2001 electronic book entitled "CIA's Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991." The text is available in PDF format. The CIA had the task of helping American policymakers understand events in the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War. This report comments on Soviet military actions, foreign policy, politics, economic performance, and...
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