What Goes On Inside DARPA, the Top-Secret Military Research Agency

The Leonard Lopate Show | Sep 23, 2015

Journalist Annie Jacobsen explores what goes on inside the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. In her book The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency, she chronicles the history of the agency, from its Cold War beginnings to the present.

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