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Pierre Mendès-France was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1954 to 1955. | 1907-01-11 | 1982-10-18 | Paris, France |
Pierre Mendès-France was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1954 to 1955. In late 1954, his coalition government granted authority for a nuclear weapons planning group to be formed inside the French Atomic Energy Commission, bringing senior officials of the ministry of defense into nuclear planning for the first time.1
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Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 3. ↩︎