The definitive history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon agency that has quietly shaped war and technology for nearly sixty years.

The story of how a lunatic fringe science project became favored by Rumsfeld's Pentagon.

The War of 1812 is typically noted for a handful of events: the burning of the White House, the rise of the Star Spangled Banner, and the battle of New Orleans.

When President Dwight D. Eisenhower prepared to leave the White House in 1961, he did so with an ominous message for the American people about the "disastrous r

The authors have done a masterful job of charting the important story of DARPA, one of the key catalysts of technological innovation in US recent history. By pl