Churchill and the Bomb in War and Cold War
Covering the development of the atomic bomb during the Second World War, the origins and early course of the Cold War, and the advent of the hydrogen bomb in the early 1950s, Churchill and the Bomb in War and Cold War explores a still neglected aspect of Winston Churchill's career - his relationship with and thinking on nuclear weapons. Kevin Ruane shows how Churchill went from regarding the bomb as a weapon of war in the struggle with Nazi Germany to viewing it as a weapon of communist containment (and even punishment) in the early Cold War before, in the 1950s, advocating and arguably pioneering mutually assured destruction as the key to pr…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4725-3216-9
- EAN: 9781472532169
- Produktnummer: 20698502
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 424 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'309 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Kevin Ruane is Professor of Modern History at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.
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