Lucien Poirier

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Lucien Poirier (born in 1918) is a retired general of the French army and theoretician of nuclear deterrence.

Poirier took part in the design of the French doctrine for use of nuclear weapons, the so-called "weak-to-strong strategy" (statégie du faible au fort), intended to deter the vastly superior Soviet Union from invading France and Europe.

Poirier authored several books on the subject.

[edit] Works

• La Crise des fondements, Paris, ISC/Economica, 1994.
• Stratégies nucléaires, Bruxelles, Complexe, 1988.
• Essais de stratégie théorique, Institut de stratégie comparée, 1982.
• Des stratégies nucléaires, Paris Hachette, 1977.

[edit] Lien externe

• (French) Lucien Poirier : "je crois en la vertu rationalisante de l'atome", interview for Le Monde