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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
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What isn't top secret in the military? Readers will be intrigued by the scientific ingenuity (past and present) brought about by wartime need, from field medicine innovations to weapons. A concluding chapter features "tomorrow's secrets," or what military research is likely to yield in the future.
3) Roswell
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 540L
Language
English
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"Examines the facts and fiction behind the happenings in Roswell"--
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English
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"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...
5) The Pentagon's brain: an uncensored history of DARPA, America's top secret military research agency
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English
Description
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....
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