FYI: Fresh Air (NPR) 1/25/10 - Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State

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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122946351

Historian Garry Wills won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for his book Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America and now he's back with a new book about how the atomic bomb transformed our nation.

Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State explores the ways in which the bomb helped expand the power of the American presidency and turn the United States into a national security state.

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1. it was good.

the genie is out of the bottle.