The Jasons are a well-guarded workforce of world-class scientists, in brief outed within the Pentagon Papers in the course of the Vietnam struggle, who've been assembly each summer season given that 1960 to take on categorized difficulties that the safeguard division can't remedy. between many lovely ideas, they helped invent our digital battlefield and famous person Wars missile protection know-how, and at the moment are taking a look into how you can enhance our intelligence collecting. Recounting the unknown tale of those tremendous, stubbornly self sustaining thinkers, Ann Finkbeiner takes benefit of her extraordinary entry to this elite team to discover the doubtful deals among technology and politics. it's a tale older than Faust and as well timed as tomorrow’s headlines.
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