Churchill and the Bomb in War and Cold War

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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.

Über den Autor

Kevin Ruane is Professor of Modern History at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

Zusammenfassung

Based on extensive research in primary and secondary sources, offering fresh insights into Churchill's career

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations used in text
Introduction: So Many Winston Churchills
Part I: War
1. Only Connect
2. Tube Alloys
3. Allies at War
4. The Quebec Agreement
5. Mortal Crimes
6. Bolsheviks, Bombs and Bad Omens
7. Trinity and Potsdam
Part II: Cold War
8. Heavy Metal, Iron Curtain
9. Warmonger/Peacemonger
10. To the Summit
11. Atomic Angles
12. Hurricane Warning
13. A Pill to End it All
14. H-bomb Fever
15. The July Days
16. Sturdy Child of Terror
Conclusion: '. if God wearied of mankind'
Abbreviations used in notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Jahrhundert:	20. Jahrhundert
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781472530806
ISBN-10:	1472530802
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Ruane, Kevin
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	233 x 158 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	Kevin Ruane
Erscheinungsdatum:	26.07.2018
Gewicht:	0,65 kg

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