Sources and Documentation

Sources

Interview with Dr Sidney D. Drell (1926-2017) at the Hoover Institution on August 6, 2013

06/08/2013

These audiofiles are parts of an interview with Dr Sidney D. Drell (1926-2017) in his office at the Hoover Institution on August 6, 2013. Benoit Pelopidas interviewed him because he was an original member of JASON, a group advising the US presidents on nuclear weapons issues, starting in the 1960s and worked on arms control his whole life. In the 2000s he was crucial in setting the group of the ‘four horsemen’, advocating further nuclear arms reductions with a view to preventing nuclear terrorism. Dr Drell embodied a particular understanding of the role of scientists and their connections to politics and State authorities. In 2013, he received the national medal of science from US President Barack Obama. A narrative biography of Sidney Drell can be found in Philip Taubman’s book The Partnership. New York, Harper and Collins, 2012. A more analytical engagement with the ethics of science in Cold War America can be found in Paul Rubinson, Redefining Science. Scientists, the National Security State and Nuclear Weapons in Cold War America, University of Massachussetts Press, 2016.

Other parts of the interview will be published soon. I am grateful to the Drell family for allowing me to make this material available.

Hiroshima et Nagasaki dans la presse francaise en août 1945

01/08/1945

Une sélection d'articles de la presse francophone couvrant les bombardements de Hiroshima et Nagasaki, en août 1945. Les documents ont été calibrés pour permettre la recherche en texte intégral.

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Documentation

Please find below the syllabii of the courses offered by Dr Benoît Pelopidas at Sciences Po (in the MSc in International Security at PSIA and in third year undergraduate on the Reims Campus). We make them available because only few courses engage with nuclear vulnerability beyond its material/strategic dimensions. Readings are in French and English.

Sécurity in a Nuclear-Armed World

Vous trouverez ci-dessous les syllabii des cours que j'enseigne à Sciences Po en license sur le campus de Reims et en maîtrise à PSIA.

Je les mets à disposition car il est rare que ces questions soient enseignées au-delà de la matérialité et de la capacité de destruction de ces armes.

Ces cours déploient des problématisations historiques, politiques et éthique, tout en offrant aux étudiants une compréhension minimale des technologies.

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Sources and Documentation

Interview with Dr Sidney D. Drell (1926-2017) at the Hoover Institution on August 6, 2013

Hiroshima et Nagasaki dans la presse francaise en août 1945

Sécurity in a Nuclear-Armed World

Dilemmas of a Nuclear-Armed World

Recherche

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