Bomb power : the modern presidency and the national security state / Garry Wills.
Publication details: New York : Penguin Press, 2010.Description: 278 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781594202407
- 9780143118688
- National security -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- National security -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Atomic bomb -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
- Presidents -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Presidents -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Executive power -- United States -- History
- Secrecy -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
- United States -- Military policy
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
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- UA23 .W4596 2010
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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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