Author: Alfred Goldberg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 738

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Author: Samuel R. Williamson Jr
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 113705882X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231

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The United States took almost a decade after Hiroshima and Nagasaki to develop a coherent strategy of nuclear deterrence. This comprehensive study by two careful and well-informed historians provides the best explanation we have of why this process took so long; it also suggests the inherent difficulties of relying on nuclear weapons to provide security in the first place. Required reading for anyone interested in the early history of the nuclear era.

Author: Steven L. Rearden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 722

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Author: Stephen W. Stathis
Publisher: CQ Press
ISBN: 1483386252
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1095

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The Second Edition of this renowned treasure trove of information about the most important laws and treaties enacted by the U.S. Congress now deepens its historical coverage and examines an entire decade of new legislation. Landmark Legislation 1774-2012 includes additional acts and treaties chosen for their historical significance or their precedential importance for later areas of major federal legislative activity in the over 200 years since the convocation of the Continental Congress. Brand new chapters expand coverage to include the last five numbered Congresses (10 years of activity from 2003-2012), which has seen landmark legislation in the areas of health insurance and health care reform; financial regulatory reform; fiscal stimulus and the Temporary Asset Relief Program; federal support for stem cell research; reform of federal financial support for public schools and higher education; and much more. Features & Benefits: Each chapter covers one of the numbered Congresses with a historical essay, followed by the major acts of that Congress arranged in chronological order of passage – with each act summarized. A Finder’s Guide summarizes all of the acts and treaties into approximately 40 separate topical policy areas. The work’s extensive bibliography has been expanded and updated. This one-volume resource is a must-have for any public or academic library, especially those with strong American history or political science collections.

Author: Steven L. Rearden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 768

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Author:
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160873430
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 718

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Author: Lawrence S. Kaplan
Publisher: Office of the Secretary, Historical Office
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 726

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A narrative history and assessment of the early years of Robert McNamara's tenure as Secretary of Defense, including McNamara's relationship with Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, the transformation of the Department of Defense as a part of Kennedy's New Frontier, and the Pentagon's handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bay of Pigs episode, and onset of the Vietnam War along with other major national security events and developments during a turbulent and momentous period of the Cold War. (Fuller description is on the dust jacket flaps.)

Author: Stanley Lawrence Falk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Author: Lawrence S. Kaplan
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873384384
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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This conference-based work offers the views of seven American diplomatic historians on the role of NATO from an American perspective, placing the alliance within the larger frame of America's foreign policy as a superpower. Each reveals an aspect of how NATO has fashioned the American Century.

Author: Stephen W. Stathis
Publisher: CQ Press
ISBN: 1452267448
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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Documents Congress's most momentous accomplishments in determining the national policies to be carried out by the executive branch, in approving appropriations to support those policies, and in fulfilling its responsibility to ensure that such actions are being implemented as intended.