Table of Contents

Introduction: Defence, Dissent and the French Political Culture Jolyon Howorth and Patricia Chilton Part 1. Defence Policies in Post-War France 1. Defence Policy: the Historical Context Neville Waites 2. Gaullism, Nuclear Weapons and the State Philip G. Cerny 3. The Parties and the Nuclear Consensus David Hanley 4. Defence and the Mitterrand Government Jolyon Howorth 5. French Nuclear Weapons Patricia Chilton Part 2. Voices of Dissent 6. French Defence: A Military Critique Admiral Antoine Sanguinetti 7. The Rebirth of a Peace Movement Claude Bourdet 8. Peace Organisations in France Today Christian Mellon 9. Ecologists and the Bomb Tony Chafer 10. The New Left and Defence: Out of the Ghetto? Vladimir Claude Fišera Postface: France and the European Peace Movement E.P. Thompson

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Jolyon Howorth and Patricia Chilton