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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.

Nuclear weapons --- Nuclear warfare --- History --- History --- Churchill, Winston --- Churchill, Winston --- Political and social views. --- Influence. --- Great Britain --- Great Britain --- Politics and government --- Politics and government

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"Déclenchée dans un contexte de ruée vers l'or et le diamant, la guerre anglo-boer est singulière à bien des égards. Aux origines de l'Apartheid, elle oppose le puissant Empire britannique aux deux petites républiques boers. Ce conflit asymétrique, largement médiatisé, évolue très vite en guérilla. Camps de concentration, déplacements de population, terreur contre les civils, usage du gaz, famine : aucun moyen n'est épargné pour soumettre les descendants des premiers colons néerlandais d'Afrique du Sud. Dans ce livre couronné de prix, Martin Bossenbroek donne toute son ampleur à ce conflit inaugural des tragédies du XXe siècle et restitue, avec un réel talent littéraire, les espoirs et le désespoir de tous ceux qui ont pris part au conflit, combattants ou simples civils - voire les deux à la fois. Il met ses pas dans ceux de trois acteurs du conflit - le diplomate et juriste Hollandais William Leyds, au service de la république blanche du Transvaal, un correspondant de guerre britannique quelque peu remuant qui n'est autre que Winston Churchill et le jeune soldat boer Deneys Reitz - et suit au plus près leur destin pour livrer un récit aux allures d'épopée."--Quatrième de couverture.

Guerre des Boers (1899-1902) --- South African War, 1899-1902. --- Guerre des Boers (1899-1902). --- Churchill, Winston --- Afrique du Sud --- South African war, 1899-1902 --- Leyds, Willem Johannes, --- Churchill, Winston, --- Reitz, Deneys, --- South African War, 1899-1902 --- South Africa --- History --- Leyds, Willem Johannes, - 1859-1940 --- Churchill, Winston, - 1874-1965 --- Reitz, Deneys, - 1882-1944