Bomb power : the modern presidency and the national security state / Garry Wills.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:New York : Penguin Press, 2010وصف:278 pages ; 24 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781594202407
- 1594202400
- 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-
- Geschichte 1945-2008
- Geschichte 1945-2008
- UA23 .W4596 2010
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | UA23 .W4596 2010 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30020000010968 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | UA23 .W4596 2010 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30020000010969 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
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.--Book jacket.