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The Argentella scandal: why French officials did not make Corsica a nuclear test site in 1960

sterre.vanbuuren — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 10:03:45 +0000

Auteur:

Austin R. Cooper

Date:

Lu, 17/04/2023

Top French officials made plans in early 1960 to transform an abandoned silver mine in Corsica, called the Argentella Massif, into an underground site for nuclear explosions. By June 1960, they had canceled these plans. This article shows how a mass movement on the Mediterranean island forced their hand, and it explains why Corsicans of diverse political affiliations took to the streets.

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https://doi.org/10.1080/10736700.2023.2187529

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No such thing as a free donation? Research funding and conflicts of interest in nuclear weapons policy analysis

sterre.vanbuuren — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 10:02:58 +0000

Auteur:

Kjølv Egeland, Benoît Pelopidas

Date:

Sa, 22/01/2022

Numerous scholars have in recent years concluded that the field of nuclear weapons policy analysis is plagued by widespread self-censorship, conformism, and enduring disconnects between accepted knowledge and available evidence. It has been hypothesized that this tendency is fostered in part by many analysts’ reliance on funding from donors with interests in the perpetuation of the existing nuclear order.

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https://doi.org/10.1177/00471178221140000

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Comment cacher un nuage ? L’organisation du secret des essais atmosphériques français (1957-1974)

sterre.vanbuuren — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 09:59:15 +0000

Auteur:

Thomas Fraise

Date:

Di, 01/01/2023

Comment organiser le secret autour d’une activité aussi remarquable, et aussi sensible, que des essais nucléaires atmosphériques ? Comment contrôler l’information quand celle-ci est – littéralement – transportée par le vent ? Basé sur des sources primaires, cet article se penche sur le régime original de secret organisé autour des sites d’essais français entre 1957 et 1974, et sur les enjeux qu’il pose en termes de contrôle de l’information et de la démocratie.

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https://shs.cairn.info/revue-relations-internationales-2023-2-page-11?lang=fr&ta...

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Thinking about What People Think about Nuclear Weapon

sterre.vanbuuren — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 09:57:35 +0000

Auteur:

Benoît Pelopidas, Kjølv Egeland

Date:

Ve, 14/04/2023

What do people really think about nuclear weapons? Responding to Dill, Sagan, and Valentino's “Kettles of Hawks” in Security Studies 31, we examine the inconsistency between different surveys of public attitudes toward nuclear weapons use. We maintain that different survey techniques tap into disparate layers of opinion—each of which is “real” in their own way and of analytical value depending on the research question being asked. We conclude by reflecting on scholarly responsibility and the dilemmas associated with researching and communicating about potentially sensitive knowledge.

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https://doi.org/10.1080/09636412.2023.2178969

French Nuclear Policy Towards Iran: From the Shah to the Islamic Republic

sterre.vanbuuren — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 09:55:44 +0000

Auteur:

Clément Therme

Date:

Ma, 18/04/2023

Since 2005, European and French foreign policy towards Iran have been caught between the change of Iran policy under Republican and Democrat administrations, on the one hand, and the Islamic Republic nuclear diplomacy on the other hand. To illustrate this argument, the article will provide a detailed history of Iranian-French relations, particularly pertaining to nuclear technology. The French discourse on a future nuclear Iranian threat reflects the dominant discourse within Western nuclear-weapon states on the nuclear ‘other’.

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https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2023.2188796

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Able Archer: How close of a call was it?

sterre.vanbuuren — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 09:47:44 +0000

Auteur:

Thomas Fraise, Kjølv Egeland

Date:

Lu, 08/05/2023

Able Archer 83, a NATO nuclear exercise conducted in the fall of 1983, has been the subject of considerable debate in recent decades. While some analysts have argued that the superpowers came close to blows due to Soviet fears that the exercise was a ruse meant to disguise a NATO attack, revisionists have maintained that the danger associated with Able Archer 83 has been seriously overstated. In this article, the authors review the scholarship, take stock of the evidence, and discuss some of the challenges of studying nuclear history and close calls.

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https://doi.org/10.1080/00963402.2023.2199577

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Experts, activists, and girl bosses of the nuclear apocalypse: feminisms in security discourse

sterre.vanbuuren — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 09:46:26 +0000

Auteur:

Kjølv Egeland, Hebatalla Taha

Date:

Ve, 12/05/2023

Having long been regarded as irrelevant to the high politics of foreign affairs, feminism and gender equality have in recent years gained increased attention in international security debates, including discussions about nuclear weapons policy. Several governments have adopted official feminist foreign policy postures, international security institutions have launched inquiries into gender equity and representation, and a myriad of security actors have enthusiastically embraced the language of women’s empowerment.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s42597-023-00100-3

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Everyday nuclear histories and futures in the Middle East, 1945–1948

sterre.vanbuuren — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 09:34:13 +0000

Auteur:

Hebatalla Taha

Date:

Lu, 18/09/2023

This article examines nuclear imaginaries in the Arabic-speaking Middle East. It situates people from the Arab world into nuclear thought, looking at how the atomic age rapidly became part of everyday lives. Embracing the idea that reality and fiction are not only deeply intertwined but also co-constitutive, it analyses everyday engagements with the nuclear condition in the aftermath of the bombing of Japan, across a wide range of sources.

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https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2023.2275611

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How dawn turned into dusk: Scoping and closing possible nuclear futures after the Cold War

sterre.vanbuuren — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:28:47 +0000

Auteur:

Benoît Pelopidas, Heba Taha, Tom Vaughan

Date:

Me, 03/01/2024

How was the scope of nuclear weapons policy change immediately after the Cold War determined? Nuclear learning and worst-case thinking are common but not satisfactory answers. On the basis of primary sources in multiple languages, we posit that a particular temporalization of nuclear events in the beginning of the 1990s took place: nonproliferation timescaping.

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https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2023.2290441

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Missing the mark: Dimona and Egypt’s slide into the 1967 Arab-Israeli War

benoit.pelopidas — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 16:46:24 +0000

Auteur:

Hassan ElBahtimy

Date:

Je, 21/03/2019

Liens:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10736700.2018.1559482?needAccess=tru...