Introduction and presentation of the USPC Security Chair 

• Alain Dieckhoff, Workshop presentation
• Benoît Pelopidas, Chair presentation
• William Walker, Reflections on the relevance of a security studies chair focusing on nuclear vulnerability
• Roberto Cantoni, Short summary of the paper « What’s in a Pipe ? »

Panel 1: Transnationalize French nuclear experience

William Walker, session chair

• Jayita Sarkar, New perspectives on French-Indian cooperation
• Anna-Mart van Wyk, Links between France and South Africa
• Anna Konieckzna, New sources on the links between France and South Africa

Discussion 

• Béatrice Heuser
• Roberto Cantoni

Panel 2: Advances on the governance of nuclear weapons in France

Thierry Balzacq, session chair

• Benoit Pelopidas and Sébastien Philippe, On the Foundations of Nuclear Bonapartism: Gaullist networks, the French Atomic Energy Commission and the legacy of wartime clandestine action
• Grey Anderson, French intellectuals and nuclear debate in the 1980s
• Yannick Pincé, The French political debate on nuclear energy in the 1980s
• Florent Pouponneau, The effects of the end of Cold War on French non-proliferation policies

Discussion 

• Dominique Mongin
• Beatrice Heuser

Panel 3: Security and safety: the temporal challenges

Benoît Pelopidas, session chair

• Miyuki Tsuchyia: An analysis of catastrophes from a comparative perspective
• Julie Blanck: Governing the long term: the role of ANDRA
• Leny Patinaux: The administration of waste burying safety
• Benoit Pelopidas: The memorialization of the Cuban Crisis in France
• Sezin Topcu: Governance of the French nuclear contestation

Discussion

• Karena Kalmbach