Lucien Poirier
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.
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.
- La réserve et l'attente : l'avenir des armes nucléaires françaises, with François Géré, Economica, Paris, 2001, 329 pp.
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