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the modern presidency and the national security state

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Penguin Press
Language
English

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Cover of: Bomb Power
Bomb Power
2011, Penguin
Cover of: Bomb Power
Bomb Power
2011, Penguin
Cover of: Bomb power
Bomb power: the modern presidency and the national security state
2010, Penguin Press
in English
Cover of: Bomb power
Bomb power: the modern presidency and the national security state
2010, Penguin Press
in English
Cover of: Bomb power
Bomb power: the modern presidency and the national security state
2010, Penguin Press
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
355/.033073
Library of Congress
UA23 .W4596 2010, UA23.W4596 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24103672M
Internet Archive
bombpowermodernp0000will
ISBN 13
9781594202407
LCCN
2009030182
OCLC/WorldCat
428731352

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