Bomb power
Subtitle: the modern presidency and the national security state
By: Garry Wills.
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781594202407
Subjects: 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-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-265) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: War in peace; title: The making of bomb power; title: Fatal miracle; title: Atomic politics; title: The care and keeping of the bomb; title: The national security state; title: Beginnings (1945-1946); title: Annus mirabilis (1947); title: Completing the apparatus; title: Presidential wars; title: Korea; title: Permanent emergency; title: Information power; title: Secrecy as embarrassment cover; title: Secrecy as Congress deceiver; title: Secrecy as policy distorter; title: Secrecy as crime concealer; title: Executive usurpations; title: "War power"; title: Challenging secrecy; title: Unitary executive; title: American monarch.