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  • Published: 12 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9781804998830
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 560
  • RRP: $35.00
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The Pentagon’s Brain

An Uncensored History of DARPA




The history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency.

In the first-ever history about 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.

  • Published: 12 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9781804998830
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 560
  • RRP: $35.00
Categories:

About the author

Annie Jacobsen

Annie Jacobsen is the bestselling author of Nuclear War: A Scenario, which was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize. A 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist, her other books include Operation Paperclip, Phenomena and The Pentagon's Brain, and have been translated into 26 languages. She also writes and produces TV, including Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan. A graduate of Princeton University, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two sons.

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