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Giscard’s Legacy: French Nuclear Policy and Non-proliferation, 1974–81

In: Nuclear Exports and World Politics

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  • Pierre Lellouche

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Never has France’s role in international nuclear politics been greater than since 1974. The period of Giscard’s Presidency not only witnessed the first major successes of the French nuclear industry’s export efforts and the launching of an ambitious domestic electro-nuclear programme, it also showed France’s impressive technological advances in key areas such as fast breeder reactors and commercial spent fuel reprocessing. Moreover, whereas all other Western industrialised nations were severely hit by the nuclear recession of these years, France demonstrated a remarkable ability to insulate herself from both social (i.e., environmental) and economic difficulties associated with the development of a large nuclear programme In fact France during the septennat increased her technological lead while carving out for herself an ever-growing role in the arena of international nuclear politics.

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  • Pierre Lellouche, 1983. "Giscard’s Legacy: French Nuclear Policy and Non-proliferation, 1974–81," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Robert Boardman & James F. Keeley (ed.), Nuclear Exports and World Politics, chapter 3, pages 33-61, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-05984-3_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05984-3_3
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