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MAINTENANCE. Since 1945, nuclear deterrence has played a decisive role. Historian Jean-Marc Le Page traces the tensions, up to Ukraine.
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Lnuclear weapon is paradoxical. Since 1945, it has undoubtedly preserved the planet from the worst, a third world war, but has made us rub shoulders with chasms which, in retrospect, are chilling. Nuclear weapons are also sustainable development. Many thought the Cold War would make it obsolete. However, between full members and applicants, the club has grown so much that it has never been so present in our horizon, the war in Ukraine reminding us, every day, of Europe.
No more major crisis as before 1989 but acute episodes, which bring to 29 since 1945 the count of these nuclear tensions. Jean-Marc Le Page had the excellent idea of recounting and ordering the eleven most serious episodes and thus of writing a hi…
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