TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wills,Garry
TI  - Bomb power: the modern presidency and the national security state 
SN  - 9781594202407
AV  - UA23 .W4596 2010
U1  - 355/.033073 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Press
KW  - National security
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Atomic bomb
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Presidents
KW  - Executive power
KW  - Secrecy
KW  - Military policy
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1945-1989
KW  - 1989-
N1  - 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
ER  -