Did the atomic bomb forever change presidential power?
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Boys build a bomb shelter during the nuclear anxiety of the Cold War, 1952.
Photo courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills speaks at the Commonwealth Club of California about his new book, "Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State." Wills argues that the invention of the atomic bomb significantly changed power dynamics in Washington.
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