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03402aam a2200421 i 4500 001 95184A4EE9E711E69A6025A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170203020341 008 160331s2016 enka b 001 0deng 010 $a 2016000484 020 $a 1472530802 020 $a 9781472530806 020 $a 1472523385 020 $a 9781472523389 035 $a (OCoLC)921033494 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d YUS $d BKL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a DA566.9 C5 R78 2016 100 1 $a Ruane, Kevin, $e author. 245 10 $a Churchill and the bomb in war and Cold War / $c Kevin Ruane. 264 1 $a London ; $b Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, $c 2016. 300 $a xxi, 402 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a 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 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 in War and Cold War", 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. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: so many Winston Churchills -- Part I. War -- Only connect -- Tube alloys -- Allies at war -- The Quebec Agreement -- Mortal crimes -- Bolsheviks, bombs and bad omens -- Trinity and Potsdam -- Part II. Cold War -- Heavy metal, iron curtain -- Warmonger/peacemonger -- To the summit -- Atomic angles -- Hurricane warning -- A pill to end it all -- H-bomb fever -- The July days -- Sturdy child of terror -- Conclusion: "If God wearied of mankind." 600 10 $a Churchill, Winston, $d 1874-1965 $x Political and social views. 600 10 $a Churchill, Winston, $d 1874-1965 $x Influence. 650 0 $a Nuclear weapons $z Great Britain $x History $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Politics and government $y 1936-1945. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Politics and government $y 1945-1964. 650 0 $a Nuclear warfare $x History $y 20th century. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Ruane, Kevin, author. $t Churchill and the bomb in war and Cold War. $d London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016 $z 9781472523471 $w (DLC) 2016015737 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20231205012556.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210014304.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=95184A4EE9E711E69A6025A3DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search