On 14 October 2009, four high-ranking French political and military officials published an op-ed in Le Monde calling for global nuclear disarmament. This letter shows that former president Jacques Chirac withdrew from the project shortly before publication. He supported to call for disarmament but was unwilling to express this position publicly for political reasons.
The data presented here are part of a study conducted by the Nuclear Knowledges team and IFOP between 7 and 18 October 2024. The survey involved 1000 people in France and 1001 in the UK. The samples were representative for the adult population of these countries. For more information on methodology, please consult this explanation by IFOP (in French).
Below is an interview with Bernard Norlain, retired general of the French Air force and founding co-director of Initiatives pour le désarmement nucléaire.
These audiofiles are parts of an interview with Dr Sidney D. Drell (1926-2017) in his office at the Hoover Institution on August 6, 2013. Benoit Pelopidas interviewed him because he was an original member of JASON, a group advising the US presidents on nuclear weapons issues, starting in the 1960s and worked on arms control his whole life. In the 2000s he was crucial in setting the group of the ‘four horsemen’, advocating further nuclear arms reductions with a view to preventing nuclear terrorism.
Une sélection d'articles de la presse francophone couvrant les bombardements de Hiroshima et Nagasaki, en août 1945. Les documents ont été calibrés pour permettre la recherche en texte intégral.
