French Nuclear Diplomacy

Author : Wilfred L. Kohl
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400869889
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Nuclear Diplomacy written by Wilfred L. Kohl and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilfred Kohl analyzes the development of France's atomic force, focusing on the role of nuclear weapons in de Gaulle's policies and its impact on French relations with NATO, her key alliance partners (the United States, Great Britain, and West Germany), and the U.S.S.R. He emphasizes the discontinuity between de Gaulle's grandiose designs and the more modest programs envisaged by cither the preceding governments of the Fourth Republic or the succeeding Pompidou government. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Wilfrid L. Kohl
Publisher : Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691075402
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Nuclear Diplomacy written by Wilfrid L. Kohl and published by Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilfred Kohl analyzes the development of France's atomic force, focusing on the role of nuclear weapons in de Gaulle's policies and its impact on French relations with NATO, her key alliance partners (the United States, Great Britain, and West Germany), and the U.S.S.R. He emphasizes the discontinuity between de Gaulle's grandiose designs and the more modest programs envisaged by cither the preceding governments of the Fourth Republic or the succeeding Pompidou government. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Robbin F Laird
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429711352
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book France, The Soviet Union, And The Nuclear Weapons Issue written by Robbin F Laird and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Laird provides the student of Soviet affairs, international security, and arms control with an understanding of the role of the Soviets in European security by examining the Soviet-French interaction. He first defines the general Soviet approach to European security issues and discusses it with specific reference to France. He identifies contem

Author : Benoît Pelopidas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003836178
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nuclear France written by Benoît Pelopidas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-01-18 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 addresses the sizing of France’s nuclear forces, technological assistance to countries with nuclear weapons programs, uranium prospection, nuclear testing, its health effects and protests against it, as well as plans to prevent and manage accidents in nuclear power plants. It is based on new questions and new sources from France and abroad. The chapters in this volume show how independent and interdisciplinary scholarship free from conflicts of interests can uniquely advance our understanding of nuclear history and politics. This is the case because it does not treat the categories and judgments of official discourse as neutral starting points of the analysis. This volume is based on untapped primary sources from France, the UK, the US, India, South Africa and Iran, on a new assessment of the health consequences of French nuclear testing in Polynesia thanks to a modern atmospheric particle transport code coupled with historical weather data, open-source information about radioactive debris (“mushroom”) clouds, as well as data on the composition and particle sizes of the fallout; and on new survey data about French knowledge of and attitudes towards nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. They show notably that the first generation of French nuclear forces lacked technical credibility despite reliance on outside help. Several French officials knew this, as did France's allies and adversaries. Moreover, French strategic collaborations associated to nuclear programs extended to India and South Africa; nuclear safety regulations changed fundamentally after the Cold War, and approximately 110,000 people, i.e. 90% of the French Polynesian population in the 1970s, could have received doses that would qualify them for compensation according to French law. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of history, politics, international relations, military history, war studies, conflict and global governance. Most of the chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in Cold War History. A few chapters were first published in the Nonproliferation Review, Diplomacy & Statecraft and Science & Global Security.

Author : Jolyon Howorth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000424057
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defence and Dissent in Contemporary France written by Jolyon Howorth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-05 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1984, examines France’s independent nuclear weapons programme of the 1980s alongside the French peace movement, which was almost totally absent – in contrast to the peace protests of the US and the rest of Europe. This book analyses this unusual pattern of defence and dissent, and assesses its likely development. It looks at the evolvement of French post-war defence policy, and discusses the French peace movement, attempting to explain why it was so weak.

Author : Nicolas Badalassi
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800733267
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book France, Germany, and Nuclear Deterrence written by Nicolas Badalassi and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-01-14 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legacy of World War II and the division of Eastern and Western Europe produced a radical asymmetry, and a variety of misgivings and misunderstandings, in French and German experiences of the nuclear age. At the same time, however, political actors in both nations continually labored to reconcile their differences and engage in productive strategic dialogue. Grounded in cutting-edge research and freshly discovered archival sources, France, Germany, and Nuclear Deterrence teases out the paradoxical nuclear interactions between France and Germany from 1954 to the present day.

Author : John Gaddis
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191522333
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb written by John Gaddis and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy Since 1945 is a path-breaking work that uses biographical techniques to test one of the most important and widely debated questions in international politics: Did the advent of the nuclear bomb prevent the Third World War? Many scholars and much conventional wisdom assumes that nuclear deterrence has prevented major power war since the end of the Second World War; this remains a principal tenet of US strategic policy today. Others challenge this assumption, and argue that major war would have been `obsolete' even without the bomb. This book tests these propositions by examining the careers of ten leading Cold War statesmen—Harry S Truman; John Foster Dulles; Dwight D. Eisenhower; John F. Kennedy; Josef Stalin; Nikita Krushchev; Mao Zedong; Winston Churchill; Charles De Gaulle; and Konrad Adenauer—and asking whether they viewed war, and its acceptability, differently after the advent of the bomb. The book's authors argue almost unanimously that nuclear weapons did have a significant effect on the thinking of these leading statesmen of the nuclear age, but a dissenting epilogue from John Mueller challenges this thesis.

Author : Constantine A. Pagedas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135265305
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the French Problem, 1960-1963 written by Constantine A. Pagedas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on official records and private papers, this book offers insights into Anglo-American reactions to France's development of an independent nuclear capability; France's bid for the political leadership of Europe; Britain's first application to join the EEC; the controversial US multilateral force (MLF) proposal for NATO; Britain's numerous propositions to France for the development of an independent European nuclear force; the tense Anglo-American diplomatic quarrel that was the Skybolt crisis; and the creative diplomacy that produced the Nassau Agreement of December 1962.

Author : Robbin F. Laird
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429712138
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Security Policy written by Robbin F. Laird and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with a look at continuity and change in French policy since de Gaulle, this book presents the evolution of French security policy in the 1970s and 1980s. Dr. Laird pays special attention to the French nuclear modernization process and to the trend in the last two decades toward a greater emphasis on security interdependence within the Western alliance at the expense of the classic Gaullist stance of independence. He examines the major dimensions of French security policy, particularly French nuclear employment policy and doctrine, the Franco-German relationship, and France's role in Europe and in East-West relations. The book features the first-time translation of some of the most significant recent papers by leading French analysts of security affairs.

Author : Pascal Boniface
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Nuclear Weapons Policy After the Cold War written by Pascal Boniface and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: