Steve Blank

And Ye Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Make You Free
- John 8:32 (and the lobby of CIA Headquarters, Langley Virginia)

A few other versions of the talk are here and here
Secret History Backstory Click Here
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More Secret History of Silicon Valley Slides – on Slideshare

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley – Backstory

• Part 1: The Vietnam War
• Part 2: B-52′s and the Soviet Air Defense System
• Part 3: Bill Perry/ESL and the Cold War
• Part 4: Undisclosed Locations
• Part 5: Silicon Valley, the 2nd 100 years
• Part 6: Stanford, Terman and WWII
• Part 7: Stanford, Terman and the Cold War
• Part 8: Stanford and the rise of Cold War Entrepreneurship
• Part 9: Stanford and Electronic Intelligence
• Part 10: Stanford and Weapons Systems
• Part 11: The Rise of Venture Capital
• Part 12: The First Valley IPO’s
• Part 13: Startups with Nuclear Missiles
• Part 14: Spy Satellites in Silicon Valley
• Part 15: Lockheed – Silicon Valley largest employer
• Part 16: Balloon Wars

Sources I used for The Secret History of Silicon Valley.  Thanks to the authors of this wonderful material.  Special note; read everything Alfred Price has written for WWII and Electronic Warfare.  Steuart Leslie, Charles Lecuyer and Rebecca S. Lowen for Stanford and the Cold War.

World War II Sources – Books/Websites

• Scientists Against Time – James Baxter
• Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science - Jennet Conant
• The Tizard Mission: The Top Secret Operation that Changed the Course of WWII
• A Radar History of WWII: Technical and Military Imperatives - Louis Brown
• Confounding the Reich: The RAF’s Secret War of Electronic Countermeasures in WWII – Martin Bowman
• Confound and Destroy: 100 Group and the Bomber Support Campaign – Martin Streetly
• Echoes of War, the Story of H2S Radar – Sir Bernard Lovell
• Boffin: A Personal Story of the Early Days of Radar, Radio Astronomy and Quantum Optics – R. Hanbury Brown
• Radar Development to 1945 – Russell Burns
• The Invention that Changed the World: How a Small Group of Radar Pioneers Won The Second World War - Robert Buderi
• Wizard War, British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945 - R.V. Jones
• History of Air Intercept Radar and the British Nightfighter 1939-1945 – Ian White
• Ground Radar Systems of the Luftwaffe: 1939-1945 – Werner Muller
• The Luftwaffe Over Germany: Defense of the Reich – Donald Caldwell
• Bf110 vs Lancaster 1942-1945 – Robert Forczyk
• Battle Over The Reich: The Strategic Bomber Offensive Over Germany: Volume One, 1939-1943 – Alfred Price
• Warriors and Wizards – development and defeat of radio controlled glide bombs – Martin Bollinger
• Defense of the Third Reich 1941-45: Steven J Zaloga
• Battle Over the Reich: The Strategic Bomber Offensive against Germany Volume 2 Nov 1943-May 1945 – Alfred Price
• Japanese Radar and Related Weapons of World War II – Yasuzo Nakagawa
• Instruments of Darkness: The History of Electronic Warfare – Alfred Price
• Volume I: The History of US. Electronic Warfare to 1946 – Alfred Price
• The U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey
• Ticom Archive – Signal Intelligence in WWII
  • European Axis Signals Intelligence – TICOM report Volume 1
  • Notes on German Cryptography and Cryptanalysis - TICOM report Volume 2
  • German Supreme Command Signals Intelligence – TICOM report Volume 3
  • German Army High Command Signals Intelligence – TICOM report Volume 4
  • German Air Force Signals Intelligence - TICOM report Volume 5
• Restricted Data – Nuclear Secrecy Blog

Cold War Sources — Books

• Volume II: The History of US. Electronic Warfare: Renaissance Years - Alfred Price
• Volume III: The History of US. Electronic Warfare: Rolling Thunder Through Allied Force, 1964 to 2000 - Alfred Price
• Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret NSA – James Bamford
• The Puzzle Palace: Inside the NSA – James Bamford
• Deep Black: Space Espionage and National Security – William Burrows
• Secrets of Signals Intelligence During the Cold War and Beyond – M. Aid, C. Wiebes
• The Black Bats: CIA Spy Flights Over China From Taiwan – Chris Pocock
• Eternal Vigilance? 50 Years of the CIA- J. Jones, R. Jones, C. Andrew
• High-Cold-War-Strategic Air Reconnaissance and the Electronic Intelligence War - Robert Jackson
• Spy Flights of the Cold War – Paul Lashmar
• By Any Means Necessary: America’s Secret Air War in the Cold War – W. Burrows
• Shadow Flights: America’s Secret Airwar Against the Soviet Union: A Cold War History – C. Peebles
• Secret Empire: Eisenhower, The CIA and the hidden story of America’s Space Espionage – P. Taubman
• The Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology -Jeffery Richelson
• GCHQ: The uncensored story of Britain’s most secret intelligence agency -Richard J. Aldrich
• Spyplane: The U-2 History – Norman Polmar
• Eye in the Sky: The Story of the Corona Spy Satellites – Dwayne Day
• Corona: America’s First Satellite Program – Kevin Ruffner
• Corona Between the Sun and the Earth: The First NRO Reconnaissance Eye in Space – Robert McDonald
• Trust but Verify: Imagery Analysis in the Cold War – David Lindgren
• Spy Capitalism: Itek and the CIA – Jonathan Lewis
• America’s Space Sentinels: DSP Satellites and National Security – Jeffery Richelson
• Shades of Gray: National Security and the Evolution of Space Reconnaissance – L. Parker Temple
• NRO Satellite History – Quest
• Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance – Donald MacKenzie
• From Polaris to Trident – The Development of US Fleet Ballistic Missile Technology – Graham Spinardi
• When Computers Went to Sea: The Digitization of the U.S. Navy - David Boslaugh
• From Whirlwind to MITRE: The R&D Story of the SAGE Air Defense Computer – Kent Redmond, Thomas Smith
• A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon – Neal Sheehan
• Titan II: A History of a Cold War Missile Program - David Stumpf
• Command and Control:Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident – Eric Schlosser
• The Kremlins’s Nuclear Sword: The Rise and Fall of Russia’s Strategic Nuclear Forces, 1945-2000 – Steven Zaloga
• Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces – Pavel Podvig, Frank von Hippel
• The Eleven Days of Christmas: America’s Last Vietnam Battle – Marshall Michel
• Flying From the Black Hole – Robert Harder
• US Strategic and Defensive Missile Systems 1950-2004 – Mark Berhow
• SA-2 (S-75) Surface to Air Missile Simulator
• The Archangel and the OXCART: the Lockheed A-12 – J. Remak, J. Ventolo
• Design and Development of the Blackbird – Peter Merlin
• From Rainbow to Gusto: Stealth and the Design of the Lockheed Blackbird – Paul Suhler
• Radar Handbook – Merrill I. Skolnik
• EW 101: a first course in electronic warfare – David Adamy
• First in Last Out: Stories by the Wild Weasels
• Threat Warning for Tactical Aircraft: A Technical History
• Beyond Expectations: Recollections of the Pioneers and Founders of National Reconnaissance
• Inside Pine Gap: The Spy Who Came in From the Desert - David Rosenberg

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