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The Pentagon's Brain
Annie Jacobsen ISBN 0316371653
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Annie Jacobsen ISBN 0316371653
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This book by Annie Jacobsen has come up 2 times across 2 different shows: Joe Rogan, Lex Fridman. The people who brought it up: Annie Jacobsen, Lex Fridman. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2024-03-22 and the most recent from 2024-07-10. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
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.
“this was when I was reporting the pend G's brain a decade ago the I thought to myself okay well if these guys won't talk to me”— Annie Jacobsen
The guest here is Annie Jacobsen: Investigative journalist and author of seven books on war, weapons, and US national security secrets, including Nuclear War: A Scenario, The Pentagon's Brain, Surprise Kill Vanish, and Phenomena. Journalist Annie Jacobsen explains how a nuclear war would kill 5 billion people in 72 minutes, then debates AI, sentience, and humanity's future with Joe Rogan.
“the books titled Area 51 Operation Paperclip the pentagon's brain phenomena surprise kill vanish and her new book nuclear war”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Annie Jacobsen: Investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist who has written several books on war, weapons, government secrecy, and national security, including 'Area 51,' 'Operation Paperclip,' 'Surprise, Kill, Vanish,' 'Phenomena,' and 'Nuclear War: A Scenario.' She built her reporting on hundreds of hours of interviews with retired secretaries of defense, nuclear commanders, weapons engineers, and CIA operators. Investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen walks Lex Fridman second-by-second through how nuclear war starts, kills 5 billion, and ends civilization.
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