<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[subject results for "Military research — United States."]]></title><description><![CDATA[subject results for "Military research — United States."]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/jocolibrary/rss/search?query=%22Military%20research%20%E2%80%94%20United%20States.%22&amp;searchType=subject&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 23:53:42 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[The Pentagon's Brain]]></title><description><![CDATA[Since its inception in 1958, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has grown to become the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science research and development agency. Created by President Eisenhower to prevent another Sputnik, and to focus primarily on defensive programs against nuclear weapons, the agency--and its imagination and scope--has expanded enormously with each passing year. From Agent Orange in Vietnam to insect-sized drones in use today, from the earliest networked computers and the Internet to smart rockets and war zones under 24-hour video surveillance, DARPA is responsible for innovations that have changed the course of war, national security, and strategic planning at the highest levels. To uncover the secret history of DARPA in action, journalist Annie Jacobsen tracked down key players in DARPA's Smart Weapons Program, past and present; neuroscientists building an artificial brain, cell biologists working on limb regeneration, the Nobel laureate who invented the laser. From DARPA's earliest defensive advances to hundreds of ongoing programs, Jacobsen exposes both sides of the DARPA coin: the fantastic technological advances from which we all benefit, and the darker side drawn up in a race for military supremacy. Based on information from inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos, The Pentagon's Brain reads like science fiction but is absolutely true, a groundbreaking look behind the scenes at the clandestine intersection of science and the American military.  --Adapted from book jacket.]]></description><link>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1417839</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1417839</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacobsen, Annie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1417839036</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>An Uncensored History of DARPA, America&apos;s Top-secret Military Research Agency</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316371766/MC.GIF&amp;client=913-495-2400&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=ocn900012161</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accessory to War]]></title><description><![CDATA[Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. "The overlap is strong, and the knowledge flows in both directions," say the authors, because astrophysicists and military planners care about many of the same things: multi-spectral detection, ranging, tracking, imaging, high ground, nuclear fusion, and access to space. Tyson and Lang call it a "curiously complicit" alliance. "The universe is both the ultimate frontier and the highest of high grounds," they write. "Shared by both space scientists and space warriors, it's a laboratory for one and a battlefield for the other. The explorer wants to understand it; the soldier wants to dominate it. But without the right technology -- which is more or less the same technology for both parties -- nobody can get to it, operate in it, scrutinize it, dominate it, or use it to their advantage and someone else's disadvantage." Spanning early celestial navigation to satellite-enabled warfare, Tyson and Lang examine the intersection of science, technology, industry, and power.]]></description><link>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1644605</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1644605</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tyson, Neil deGrasse]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1644605036</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781432863814/MC.GIF&amp;client=913-495-2400&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=on1079400471</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Secret of Tuxedo Park]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the fall of 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered a small team of scientists on a clandestine transatlantic mission to deliver his country's most valuable military secret, a revolutionary radar component, not to the U.S. government, but to a mysterious Wall Street tycoon, Alfred Lee Loomis. Using his connections, his money, and his brilliant scientific mind, Loomis and his team of scientists developed radar technology that would arguably play a more decisive role than any other weapon in the war. The Secret of Tuxedo Park tells a long-overlooked story of an individual who helped alter the course of history in World War II.]]></description><link>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1570685</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1570685</guid><category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1570685036</comments><format>DVD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781531703967/MC.GIF&amp;client=913-495-2400&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=on1015687889&amp;upc=841887035699</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Imagineers of War]]></title><link>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1510771</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1510771</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Weinberger, Sharon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1510771036</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Untold History of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385351799/MC.GIF&amp;client=913-495-2400&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=ocn946610757</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grunt]]></title><description><![CDATA["'Grunt' tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries-- panic, exhaustion, heat, noise-- and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them"--]]></description><link>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1457369</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1457369</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Roach, Mary]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1457369036</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Curious Science of Humans at War</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780393245448/MC.GIF&amp;client=913-495-2400&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=ocn921868897</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The German Wife]]></title><description><![CDATA["Berlin, Germany, 1930--When the Nazis rise to power, Jürgen Rhodes is offered a high-level position in their burgeoning rocket program. Jürgen and his wife Sofie fiercely oppose Hitler's radical views, and joining his ranks is unthinkable. Yet it soon becomes clear that if Jürgen does not accept the job, their income would be put on the line, and so would their lives. Huntsville, Alabama, 1950--Jürgen is one of many German scientists pardoned and granted a position in America's space program. For Sofie, this is a chance to leave the horrors of her past behind. But when rumors about the Rhodes family's affiliation with the Nazi party spreads, idle gossip turns to bitter rage, and the act of violence that results tears apart a family and leaves the community wondering if it's an act of vengeance, or justice?"--]]></description><link>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1819135</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1819135</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rimmer, Kelly]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1819135036</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781525899904/MC.GIF&amp;client=913-495-2400&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=on1302900524</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skunk Works]]></title><description><![CDATA[The former head of Lockheed's Skunk Works reveals the now-it-can-be-told story of the secret airplanes and deep black missions that changed the course of history-from U-2 to the Stealth fighter.]]></description><link>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1986996</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1986996</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rich, Ben R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 1996 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1986996036</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316743006/MC.GIF&amp;client=913-495-2400&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=ocm30036071</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secrets From the Black Vault]]></title><description><![CDATA["The history books are meant to give you verifiable history. The United States Government wants you to not question the narrative that, in some cases, has been written for more than a century. But sometimes, real facts emerge from declassified documents that challenge what you thought you knew."--]]></description><link>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1702918</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1702918</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Greenewald, John]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1702918036</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Army&apos;s Plan for A Military Base on the Moon and Other Declassified Documents That Rewrote History</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781538134061/MC.GIF&amp;client=913-495-2400&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=on1112202780</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nuking the Moon]]></title><description><![CDATA["In Nuking the Moon, intelligence historian Vince Houghton proves that abandoned plans can be just as illuminating--and every bit as entertaining--as the ones that made it. Vividly capturing the fascinating stories of how twenty-one plans from WWII and the Cold War went from conception, planning, and testing to cancellation, Houghton explores what happens when innovation meets desperation: For every plan as good as D-Day, there's a scheme to strap bombs to bats or dig a spy tunnel underneath the Soviet embassy. Along the way, he reveals what each one tells us about twentieth-century history, the art of spycraft, military strategy, and famous figures like JFK, Castro, and Churchill. By turns terrifying and hilarious--but always riveting--this is the unique story of history left on the drawing board"--]]></description><link>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1653369</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1653369</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Houghton, Vince]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1653369036</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525505174/MC.GIF&amp;client=913-495-2400&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=on1049791605</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surveillance Valley]]></title><description><![CDATA["Starting in the early 1960s, there was fear in America about the proliferation of computer database and networking technologies. People worried that these systems were going to be used by both corporations and governments for surveillance and control. Indeed, the dominant cultural view at the time was that computers were tools of repression, not liberation -- and that included the ARPANET, the military research network that would grow into the Internet we use today. Surveillance Valley starts in the past, but moves into the present, looking at the private surveillance business that powers much of Silicon Valley and the overlap between the Internet and the military-industrial complex. It also investigates and uncovers the close ties that exist between U.S. intelligence agencies and the anti-government privacy movement that has sprung up in the wake of Edward Snowden's leaks. The Internet was developed as a weapon, and remains a weapon today. American military interests continue to dominate all parts of the network, even those that supposedly stand in opposition."--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1564505</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1564505</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Levine, Yasha]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1564505036</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Secret Military History of the Internet</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781610398022/MC.GIF&amp;client=913-495-2400&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=on1015275129</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Phenomena]]></title><description><![CDATA[For more than forty years, the U.S. government, through various military and intelligence agencies, has invested millions in classified programs that study the role of mental telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition and other forms of extrasensory perception (ESP) as a means of intelligence collection for military and defense purposes. Annie Jacobsen tells the story of these programs, using interviews with the core group of individuals who ran these phenomena programs at the highest level of government.]]></description><link>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1507836</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1507836</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacobsen, Annie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1507836036</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle>The Secret History of the U.S. Government&apos;s Investigations Into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781478938835/MC.GIF&amp;client=913-495-2400&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=ocn953707384</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Phenomena]]></title><link>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1506081</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1506081</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacobsen, Annie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1506081036</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>The Secret History of the U.S. Government&apos;s Investigations Into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316396806/MC.GIF&amp;client=913-495-2400&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=ocn953707709</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Phenomena]]></title><description><![CDATA[For more than forty years, the U.S. government has researched extrasensory perception, using it in attempts to locate hostages, fugitives, secret bases, and downed fighter jets; to divine other nations' secrets; and even to predict future threats to national security. The intelligence agencies and military services involved include the CIA, DIA, NSA, DEA, the Navy, Air Force, and Army--and even the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Now, for the first time, Jacobsen tells the story of these radical, controversial programs, using never-before-seen declassified documents as well as exclusive interviews with, and unprecedented access to, more than fifty of the individuals involved. A riveting investigation into how far governments will go in the name of national security.--]]></description><link>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1505417</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1505417</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacobsen, Annie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1505417036</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Secret History of the U.S. Government&apos;s Investigations Into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316349369/MC.GIF&amp;client=913-495-2400&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=ocn953598602</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Big Book of X-bombers and X-fighters]]></title><link>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1458980</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1458980</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pace, Steve]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1458980036</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>USAF Jet-powered Experimental Aircraft and Their Propulsive Systems</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780760349502/MC.GIF&amp;client=913-495-2400&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=ocn921821898</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[American Arsenal]]></title><link>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1304456</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1304456</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Coffey, Patrick]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1304456036</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Century of Waging War</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780199959747/MC.GIF&amp;client=913-495-2400&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=ocn841206045</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rearming for the Cold War, 1945-1960]]></title><link>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1206849</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1206849</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Converse, Elliott Vanveltner]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1206849036</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=/MC.GIF&amp;client=913-495-2400&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=ocn747385732</image_url></item></channel></rss>