European Nuclear Nationalism: UK and French Perspectives on Nuclear Disarmament
Journal: HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
Year: 2015

France and the UK have had different approaches to the possibility of nuclear disarmament; these derive from the different post- Second World War national narratives in which the development of nuclear weapons has been embedded. This started from two different attitudes toward the NATO Alliance and its nuclear component, two different sets of lessons learned from the 1956 Suez crisis (Pelopidas 2015a), and it culminated in two different reactions to the increase in nuclear disarmament advocacy w