Nuclear France

This book offers the first non-official history of French nuclear policies which goes beyond the divide between nuclear weapons and nuclear energy policies. It is based on new questions and new sources from France and abroad.

Autorentext

Benoît Pelopidas is Associate Professor and the founding director of the Nuclear Knowledges program at the Center for International Studies, Sciences Po, Paris, France. Nuclear Knowledges is the first scholarly research program in France on the nuclear phenomenon which refuses funding from stakeholders of the nuclear weapons entreprise or from antinuclear activists in order to problematize conflicts of interest and their effect on knowledge production. The program mobilizes interdisciplinary methods to become able to assess accepted claims about nuclear realities. Benoît is an affiliate to CISAC at Stanford University and has been a visiting fellow at Princeton University's Program on Science and Global Security. He is the PI of the VULPAN project funded by the French National Research Agency and the NUCLEAR project funded by the European Research Council.

Inhalt

1. Unfit for purpose: reassessing the development and deployment of French nuclear weapons (1956-1974) 2. Normalisation of nuclear accidents after the Cold War 3. Nuclear twins: French-South African strategic cooperation (1964-79) 4. From the dependable to the demanding partner: the renegotiation of French nuclear cooperation with India, 1974-80 5. Nuclear reach: uranium prospection and the global ambitions of the French nuclear programme, 1945-65 6. The Argentella Scandal: Why French Officials Did Not Make Corsica a Nuclear Test Site in 1960 7. French nuclear policy towards Iran: from the Shah to the Islamic Republic 8. Radiation Exposures and Compensation of Victims of French Atmospheric Nuclear Tests in Polynesia