Pierre Gallois biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Pierre Gallois

Author Name:

Pierre Gallois

Born As:

Pierre Marie Gallois

Other Names:

Born:

29 Jun 1911

Died:

24 Aug 2010




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Air Force Brigadier General and Geopolitician                          
                          
Wife Françoise Marie Gallois, three children.                          
                          
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Marie_Gallois

Instrumental in the constitution of the French nuclear arsenal, and earned him the nickname of father of the French atom bomb.

However, Bruno Tertrais, a research fellow at the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique, argued in "Destruction Assurée : The Origins and Development of French Nuclear Strategy, 1945-1981," an essay in Henry Sokolski, ed., Getting Mad: Nuclear mutual assured destruction, its origins and practice, that other contemporaries of Gallois in the community of French defense intellectuals deserve a greater share of the credit.