Nicolas Badalassi & Frédéric Gloriant 
France, Germany, and Nuclear Deterrence [EPUB ebook] 
Quarrels and Convergences during the Cold War and Beyond

List of Abbreviations

Introduction
Nicolas Badalassi and Frédéric Gloriant

Part I: From the Beginning of the Franco-German Strategic Dialogue to the Nuclear Ambiguities of the ‘Adenauer/de Gaulle’ Era

Chapter 1. Raymond Aron, Germany and the Atomic Bomb
Joël Mouric

Chapter 2. France and the Abandoned Dream of a European Bomb, 1954–1958
Jenny Raflik

Chaper 3. From Bonn to Valhalla? West German Nuclear Ambitions, France, and U.S. Nuclear Assistance, 1960–1963
Andreas Lutsch

Chapter 4. De Gaulle’s Nuclear Policy, West Germany and the Second Berlin Crisis: A Historiographical Reappraisal, 1958–1963
Frédéric Gloriant

Part II: Ostpolitik and the Franco-German Nuclear Relations in the 1970s

Chapter 5. ‘Military Cooperation Is Not in Itself an Instrument of Progress’: The Role of the French Nuclear Deterrent in Early Concepts of Ostpolitik
Benedikt Schoenborn

Chapter 6. Implicit Convergence? Franco-German Relations, European Security and Nuclear Cooperation in the Era of Ostpolitik, 1969–1974
Nicolas Badalassi

Chapter 7. French Deterrence, the Defence of Europe and the German Question, 1975–1983
Ilaria Parisi

Part III: The ‘Mitterrand/Kohl’ Era and the End of the Cold War

Chapter 8. Evolution of the French Nuclear Strategy towards Germany during Mitterrand’s Presidency
Dominique Mongin

Chapter 9. France and the FRG during the 1980s: When Strategic Questions Became Political Debates
Yannick Pincé

Chapter 10. ‘Not a Nuclear Switzerland’: France’s Deterrent Posture and the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1980s
Frédéric Bozo

Part IV: Nuclear Uncertainties in the Post-Cold War Era

Chapter 11. France, Germany and Nuclear Deterrence Since the End of the Cold War: From Estrangement to Rapprochement?
Guillaume de Rougé

Chapter 12. Walking Together in Different Directions: Prospects for French-German Cooperation on Nuclear Deterrence and Arms Control after the End of the Cold War
Oliver Meier

Appendix: Figures of the French Nuclear Arsenal and of the U.S. Nuclear Warheads Deployed in NATO-Europe

Index

Frédéric Gloriant is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the Centre de recherches en histoire internationale et atlantique of the University of Nantes. He obtained his doctorate in 2014 at Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III) and worked from 2017 to 2018 as a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Nuclear and Strategic Studies, École Normale Supérieure (Paris-Ulm).