# The Pentagon’s Brain

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- Book: [The Pentagon’s Brain](https://www.bookquiver.com/annie-jacobsen/the-pentagons-brain) ([The Pentagon’s Brain.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/annie-jacobsen/the-pentagons-brain.md))
- Authors: [Annie Jacobsen](https://www.bookquiver.com/annie-jacobsen)
- Publisher: Back Bay
- ISBN: 978-03-1637-166-7
- Published: 2016-06-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful and most controversial military science R&D agency. In the first-ever history of the organization, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents and declassified memos to paint a picture of DARPA, or " the Pentagon's brain," from its Cold War inception in 1958 to the present. This is the book on DARPA - a compelling narrative about this clandestine intersection of science and the American military and the often frightening results.