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For a deeper dive into how DARPA came to be in 1958 and its history into the early 1970s, read the first book-length treatment of the subject. This book was commissioned by the agency itself and draws from extensive interviews with directors and program managers. Every other book about DARPA lists this one in its bibliography.
Learn why DARPA almost didn’t survive its first couple of years, likened to a “dead cat hanging in the fruit closet,” and how a “white elephant” became its salvation. Someone needs to publish this treatise properly in book form. For now, it exists as…
From Michael's list on DARPA, America’s mad scientist agency.
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