"Une guerre nucléaire ne peut être gagnée et ne doit jamais être menée"

Nucléaire - Déclaration conjointe des chefs d’État et de Gouvernement de la République populaire de Chine, des États-Unis d’Amérique, de la République française, du Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d’Irlande du Nord et de la Fédération de Russie pour prévenir la guerre nucléaire et éviter les courses aux armements. Paris, 3 janvier 2022

The threat posed by the announcement of President Putin that he had started to prepare to deploy nuclear weapons caused widespread panic, and the silver lining, if there is one, is that the general public has become aware of the real risk of a nuclear war.

“There are no winners in a nuclear war, it should be avoided.”

I interviewed former French diplomat, Ambassador Marc Finaud, who has worked extensively on issues of disarmament, representing France at the Conference on Disarmament, and is now Head of the Arms Proliferation programme at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. *In French, and English.

Bio:

Former French Ambassador Marc Finaud is currently Head of Arms Proliferation at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. He joined the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1977, serving initially at the Military Cooperation Division. From 1977 to 1978, he was Vice-Consul at the French Consulate-General in Leningrad (USSR). Back in Paris, he worked at the Directorate for Europe at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, CSCE, from 1979 to 1982.

He was a member of the French Delegation to the CSCE Meeting in Madrid (1980-1982). In 1982-1983 he served as Chief of Staff of the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before being appointed First Secretary at the French Embassy in Warsaw. In 1987-1988, he was the Secretary-General of the French Delegation to the CSCE meeting in Vienna.

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