<strong>The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the<em>New York Times</em> bestseller <em>Area 51</em></strong> <br><br>No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&amp;D agency. In the first-ever history about the organization,<em>New York Times</em> bestselling author Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos to paint a picture of DARPA, or &quot;the Pentagon's brain,&quot; from its Cold War inception in 1958 to the present.<br><br>This is <i>the</i> book on DARPA--a compelling narrative about this clandestine intersection of science and the American military and the often frightening results.