The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity After World War II by Gabrielle Hecht

The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity After World War II

Gabrielle Hecht

461 pages • first pub 1998 (view editions)

nonfiction history politics science informative slow-paced
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How it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or "radiance," which also means "radiation" in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else.In the aftermath of World War II, as France sought a distinctive role for itself in t...

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