Kevin Ruane Churchill and the Bomb in War and Cold War (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Churchill and the Bomb in War and Cold WarCondition: NewEAN: 9781472530806ISBN: 9781472530806Publisher: Bloomsbury AcademicFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/26/2018Item Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmItem Weight: 640gAuthor: Kevin RuaneLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 1472530802Description: 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 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 what would become known as “mutually assured destruction” as the key to preventing the Cold War flaring into a calamitous nuclear war. While other studies of Churchill have touched on his evolving views on nuclear weapons, few historians have given this hugely important issue the kind of dedicated and sustained treatment it deserves. In Churchill and the Bomb, however, Kevin Ruane has undertaken extensive primary research in Britain, the United States and Europe, and accessed a wide array of secondary literature, in producing an immensely readable yet detailed, insightful and provocative account of Churchill’s nuclear hopes and fears.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Law & PoliticsTopic: History, Military HistoryRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Book Title: Churchill and the Bomb in War and Cold War

Title: Churchill and the Bomb in War and Cold War

EAN: 9781472530806

ISBN: 9781472530806

Release Date: 07/26/2018

Release Year: 2018

ISBN-10: 1472530802

Country/Region of Manufacture: GB

Genre: Law & Politics

Topic: Military History

Number of Pages: 424 Pages

Publication Name: Churchill and the Bomb in War and Cold War

Language: English

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Subject: Military / Nuclear Warfare, Military / World War II, Modern / 20th Century, Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, International Relations / General, Historical

Publication Year: 2018

Item Height: 0.9 in

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 22.6 Oz

Author: Kevin Ruane

Item Length: 9 in

Subject Area: Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History

Item Width: 6.3 in

Format: Trade Paperback