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Title Bomb power : the modern presidency and the national security state / by Garry Wills.
Author Wills, Garry, 1934-
Publication Info. New York : Penguin Press, 2010.
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Description 278 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject 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-
ISBN 9781594202407 : $27.95
1594202400
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