Bomb power : the modern presidency and the national security state / Garry Wills.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Penguin Press, 2010.Description: 278 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781594202407
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 355/.033073 22
LOC classification:
  • UA23 .W4596 2010
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.
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Book Book Manhattan Area Technical College Library 355/.033073 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 20170432

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-265) and index.

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.

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