Churchill and the Bomb in War and Cold War

by Kevin Ruane

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472530802
• ISBN13: 9781472530806
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"