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u/Riggedit · 4 pointsr/conspiracy

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u/reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed · 2 pointsr/nashville

You're joking, but I just finished this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Pentagons-Brain-Uncensored-Americas-Top-Secret/dp/0316371769/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1452884324&sr=8-1&keywords=pentagons+brain

There's a whole chapter about how DARPA is engineering cyborg animals and drones that look like birds and dragonflies.

u/sour_notes · 2 pointsr/samharris

I highly recommend Annie Jacobsen's book The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top Secret Military Research Agency. Her book is definitely in the top-10 most interesting books I've read in the past year.

From a Washington Post review:
>DARPA is responsible for stealth technology, tank simulators and the M-16 rifle on the one side of the ledger, but on the other side data-mining programs such as Total Information Awareness and the research that led to harsh interrogation techniques used on prisoners after 9/11. DARPA’s original members were working in the Southern California offices of the Rand Corp. think tank in the 1950s. And nowhere was that competitive spirit more apparent than at lunchtime, when the scientists began playing Kriegspiel, a chess variant once favored by the German military. With maps of the world spread across lunch tables, the great minds of the Cold War era would spend hours on the game.

Here is a part on John von Neumann (Jacobsen writes about him a quite a bit):
>The master of these games, by Jacobsen’s account, was a mathematician and former child prodigy named John von Neumann. He was considered so bright that he was hired by Rand’s mathematics division on rather unusual terms: He was supposed to “write down his thoughts each morning while shaving, and for those ideas he would be paid $200 a month — the average salary of a full-time RAND analyst at the time.” Eventually, he was also charged with a rather delicate project. He performed the precise calculations that determined at what altitude over Hiroshima and Nagasaki the atomic bombs had to explode in order to kill the maximum number of civilians on the ground. He determined that height was 1,800 feet.

And on:
>Von Neumann was one of the original members of DARPA and its precursor organizations. Other notables included John Wheeler, a Princeton University physicist who coined the term “black hole”; Herb York, the first director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; theoretical physicist Edward Teller; and a former president of the California Institute of Technology, Marvin “Murph” Goldberger. It wasn’t until Congress formally created DARPA in 1958 that its key advisers moved from the lunch tables at Rand and other think tanks and took on a more conventional shape. What were once brainstorming sessions at summer homes on the Cape became official meetings at the National War College at Fort McNair in Washington. The Defense Department gave the group a code name — Project 137.

And on:
>Fast-forward to today: With its $3 billion annual budget and its advanced technologies and programs, DARPA is the force behind some of the world’s coolest gizmos, my personal favorite: the Stealthy Insect Sensor Project, which used honeybees to locate bombs. “Bees have sensing capabilities that outperform the dog’s nose by a trillion parts per second,” Jacobsen writes. Jacobsen conducted dozens of interviews with former DARPA members. DARPA, Jacobsen writes, was responsible not only for early research into brainwashing and Agent Orange, but also the hearts and minds campaign in Vietnam and post-9/11 data-mining programs.

Here is another review that uses the information in her book to be quite critical of DARPA:
>Based on interviews with DARPA scientists and classified government documents and reports, Jacobsen’s book provides a history of the agency, which was created by Congress in 1958 and that has led to innovations such as the global positioning system (GPS) and the Internet. Jacobsen previously wrote Operation Paperclip on the recruitment by the Pentagon and CIA of Nazi scientists such as Wernher Von Braun, creator of the German V-2 rocket.

And on:
>Von Braun was part of the milieu of many of the top defense intellectuals and scientists associated with DARPA’s early history, including Edward Teller, father of the Hydrogen bomb, Herbert York, the head of Berkeley’s Livermore radiation laboratory, Harold Brown, the first physicist to hold the position of defense secretary under Jimmy Carter, and John Von Neumann, the “father of modern computers.” They and their successors spearheaded DARPA’s sponsorship of research that led to the so-called revolution in military affairs. The technologies included computerized control and command centers, laser-guided bombs, space-based satellites, night-vision devices and stealth fighter bombers invisible to radar. Psychological warfare techniques and behavior modification software designed to predict peasant behavior in Third World countries.

You can also read some portions of the book that someone highlighted here and here. Whether you like or dislike DARPA, Jacobsen's book is an essential read if you want to understand what's happening in the world. I'm surprised that Harris hasn't interviewed her given that he talks about the implications (the impact of technology) of many of these issues.

u/_Helper_Bot_ · 1 pointr/conspiracy