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Military science: Masters of war

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David Kaiser appraises a chronicle of the US agency that spawned technologies from drones to the Internet.

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  1. David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. His latest book is Groovy Science, co-edited with W. Patrick McCray.,

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