France, Germany, and Nuclear Deterrence

Nicolas Badalassi is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the Institut d’Etudes politiques of Aix-en-Provence. His book publications include The CSCE and the End of the Cold War: Diplomacy, Societies and Human Rights, 1972-1990 (Berghahn Books, 2019, coedited with Sarah B. Snyder), and Reconstructing Europe 45 Years after Yalta: The Charter of Paris (1990) (CTHS, 2020, coedited with Jean-Philippe Dumas).

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