Bomb Power : : the Modern Presidency and the National Security State
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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 (1948-1952) -- Presidential wars. Korea ; Permanent emergency -- Information power. Secrecy as embarrassment cover ; Secrecy as Congress deceiver ; Secrecy as policy disabler ; Secrecy as crime concealer -- Executive usurpations. "War powers" ; Challenging secrecy ; The unitary executive ; American monarch.
From Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills comes this groundbreaking examination of how the atomic bomb profoundly altered the nature of American democracy, and why we have been in a state of war alert ever since.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Press, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 278 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781594202407
1594202400
SUBJECTS
National security -- History -- 20th century.
National security -- History -- 21st century.
Atomic bomb -- History.
Presidents -- History -- 20th century.
Presidents -- History -- 21st century.
Executive power -- History.
Secrecy -- History.
United States -- Military policy.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-