Défense/Stratégie

Working Paper - LA COURSE AUX ARMEMENTS ANTI-SATELLITES (ASAT)

Une dimension nouvelle de la dissuasion au XXIéme siècle
Auteur: 
Hubert Fabre, chercheur associé à l’IERI
Date de publication: 
12/4/2012

Dix ans après l’effondrement de l’Union soviétique, l’annonce du retrait unilatéral des Etats-Unis du traité ABM, en décembre 2001, marque le dépassement du premier acte de l’équilibre de la terreur fondé sur la dissuasion nucléaire et, en conséquence, le démarrage de la redéfinition de l’équilibre stratégique mondial. Le déploiement des radars et des intercepteurs de la Missile Defense (MD) américaine matérialise ce dépassement en même temps qu’il encourage, de manière insidieuse, la course aux armements ASAT.

Working Paper - FISSION, FUSION AND STAGING

A bird's view at the core concepts of nuclear weapon design and the curious ideas about it
Auteur: 
Franco Cozzani
Date de publication: 
26/7/2011

Chers Amis,

Nous avons l'honneur de publier le quatrième et dernier article du physicien Franco COZZANI, Chef du Département de Stratégie et Innovation auprès du Secrétariat de l'initiative EUREKA à la Commission européenne.

A universe of death, which God by curse

Created evil, for evil only good,

Working Paper - A MULTI-MEGATON WORLD?

Auteur: 
Franco Cozzani
Date de publication: 
22/7/2011

 

Chers Amis,

Working Paper - NUCLEAR WEAPONS

The problem that did not go away
Auteur: 
Franco Cozzani
Date de publication: 
4/7/2011

 

Chers Amis,

Working Paper - LA POLITIQUE EXTÉRIEURE DE LA TURQUIE

Les Défis du « Printemps Arabe »
Auteur: 
Irina TICĂ-DIACONU*
Date de publication: 
1/7/2011

Introduction

Working Paper - CHAREED DOLLS

The real and supposed amorality of nuclear weapons
Auteur: 
Franco Cozzani
Date de publication: 
18/6/2011

And bring ye to the place where thou and Death
Shall dwell at ease, and up and down unseen
Wing silently the buxom air, embalmed
With odours; there ye shall be fed and filled
Immeasurably, all things shall be your prey.

John Milton, Paradise Lost, II, 840-844

The rescue squads had flocked to the levelled city a few hours after the attack. Their awareness of the tragedy numbed by the harrowing sight of the wanton destruction all around them, the men could not make out for a while of the strange, seemingly too high number of charred dolls dotting the streets in front of them. Why had been so many children running for their lives, clinching to their favourite toys only to eventually jettison them in the boiling mayhem they had been so desperately trying to escape? The eyes of the rescuers fell on one doll, then on a few, and then again on dozens of them, blackened cinders which appeared incongruously too many to make any sense, even amid that senseless devastation. Only then, all at once, did the dizzying depth of the horror finally set in. The children had not abandoned their toys. Those were not dolls. Those cinders were the children.

When burned, human bodies shrink. When burned completely, the bodies of adults shrink down to about the size of a medium ape; the bodies of children get shrunk down in proportion. This was not all that was awaiting the rescue squads, though: thousands more corpses, of children as well as of adults, were discovered in the city’s bomb shelters, cyanotic from suffocation. The violent firestorm, a man-mad phenomenon with no equal in Nature, had utterly deprived of oxygen many areas of the city, and even the few lucky enough to escape the fire could not breath. Others had burned to death out in the streets, trapped by the melting asphalt up to their knees until the flames had reached them. During the following days, thousands of bodies, many with their limbs fused to the remains of the torso by the intense heat, were carried away in carts looking grotesquely too small below the barely balancing piles of bodies.

Working Paper - WALK THE TALK

The EU needs an effective early warning system to match its ambitions to prevent conflict and promote peace
Auteur: 
Lucia Montanaro and Julia Schünemann
Date de publication: 
8/6/2011

Executive Summary

The aim of this paper is to identify the shortcomings and constraints of the current EU early warning system and suggest ways to overcome these in order for the EU to match its ambitions to prevent conflict, promote peace in the world and mitigate threats to EU interests and international security. Early warning is an essential key to anticipating and preventing violent conflict. Early action is impossible without early warning.

Working Paper - L'EUROPE, LE RETOUR DES NATIONS ET LES MÉTAMORPHOSES DU MONDE

Working Paper - LES ARMES NUCLÉAIRES

Un problème d'actualité
Auteur: 
Irnerio Seminatore
Date de publication: 
21/4/2011

Nous donnerons suite en quatre parutions successives de « IERI News » aux réflexions politiques, scientifiques et éthiques du physicien nucléaire, le Docteur (Phd) Franco Cozzani, Chef d'unité adjoint de la DG Recherche et Innovation, Commission européenne, qui s'exprime toutefois à titre uniquement personnel.

Les titres des quatre contributions sont significatifs :

  1. Les Armes Nucléaires. Un problème toujours d'actualité

Working Paper - « DÉMOCRATISME », « REALPOLITIK » ET « MULTICULTURALISME »

Approche Géopolitique des crises méditerranéennes et européennes,
Auteur: 
Pierre-Emmanuel Thomann, conseiller en géopolitique,
Date de publication: 
3/3/2011

 

Les révolutions populaires dans les pays de la rive sud de la Méditerranée et au Moyen Orient ont déclenché un déferlement médiatique tout à fait classique dans ce genre de situation, véhiculant les incantations de la classe politique, les imprécisions journalistiques, mais surtout la propagande des acteurs impliqués sans aucun recul ni analyse de fond, à de rares exceptions près, dans un contexte a-historique et a-territorial.

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