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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Wills, Garry, 1934- Bomb power. New York : Penguin Press, 2010 (OCoLC)747306200 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Garry Wills |
| ISBN: | 9781594202407 1594202400 |
| OCLC Number: | 428731352 |
| Description: | 278 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: War in peace -- The making of bomb power -- Fatal miracle -- Atomic politics -- The care and keeping of the bomb -- The national security state -- Beginnings (1945-1946) -- Annus mirabilis (1947) -- Completing the apparatus -- Presidential wars -- Korea -- Permanent emergency -- Information power -- Secrecy as embarrassment cover -- Secrecy as Congress deceiver -- Secrecy as policy distorter -- Secrecy as crime concealer -- Executive usurpations -- "War power" -- Challenging secrecy -- Unitary executive -- American monarch. |
| Responsibility: | Garry Wills. |
Abstract:
From Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills comes this groundbreaking examination of how the atomic bomb profoundly altered the nature of American democracy, and why we have been in a state of war alert ever since.--Book jacket.
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