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100 1 _aWills, Garry,
_d1934-
245 1 0 _aBomb power :
_bthe modern presidency and the national security state /
_cGarry Wills.
260 _aNew York :
_bPenguin Press,
_c2010.
300 _a278 p. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [243]-265) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
650 0 _aNational security
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aNational security
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y21st century.
650 0 _aAtomic bomb
_xPolitical aspects
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aPresidents
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aPresidents
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y21st century.
650 0 _aExecutive power
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aSecrecy
_xPolitical aspects
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xMilitary policy.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xPolitics and government
_y1945-1989.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xPolitics and government
_y1989-
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