TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ruane,Kevin
TI  - Churchill and the bomb in war and Cold War
SN  - 9781472523389 (hbk.) :
AV  - DA566.9.C5 
U1  - 355.0217 RUA 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
KW  - Churchill, Winston,
KW  - Nuclear weapons
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Nuclear warfare
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1936-1945
KW  - 1945-1964
KW  - Warfare and Defence
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
ER  -