Sharon Weinberger, The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, The Pentagon Agency that Changed the World

Abstract

The book, Imagineers of War, is a detailed account of Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA, previously known as ARPA) different scope of projects from its inception to current period. DARPA is an agency in the United States responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. Sharon Weinberger, the author of Imaginary Weapons: A Journey Through the Pentagon’s Scientific Underworld, was the national security editor at The Intercept, an online newspaper. She has extensively written on the subject of military science and technology for different newspapers like Wired, The Washington Post, and the BBC among others. She has been a fellow at Radcliff Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, MIT’s Knight Science Journalism program and International Reporting Program at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.