Investigative Journalist Annie Jacobsen: War, Weaponry, and Government Secrecy
The Jack Carr Channel
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The Rise and Fall of DARPA
In 1957, the government was creating this new organization called ARPA. They wanted a chief scientist and who did they look to? What, Warner von Braun? And they asked him, the Joint Chiefs of Staff asked von Braun this former Nazi. He said he would do it if I could bring 12 of my colleagues with me - AKA 12 Nazis. That was the line in the sand for the Pentagon: No thanks. Instead they found a director in Herb York,. Maybe you should write about DARPA; that's fascinating.
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