? Robert Dautray a joué un rôle de premier plan dans l'histoire scientifique et militaire récente de notre pays. Il est notamment le "père" de la bombe H française. Pour la première fois, il en raconte l'histoire et révèle, en particulier, le concours que certains de nos alliés, via leurs services secrets, ont apporté à cette entreprise. Il livre aujourd'hui son témoignage sur le nucléaire civil et militaire français, sur ses espoirs et ses risques. Avec sensibilité et émotion, il restitue aussi son cheminement personnel : la misère d'une famille d'immigrés avant guerre, la fuite pour se cacher pendant l'Occupation, alors que la plus grande partie de sa famille allait périr dans les camps, l'élan retrouvé qui lui permit de devenir major de Polytechnique et de consacrer sa vie scientifique à l'indépendance de notre pays. Longtemps, Robert Dautray s'est tu. Au soir de sa vie, lui qui a sans doute la vision la plus complète du nucléaire d'hier, d'aujourd'hui et de demain, il témoigne enfin de son improbable parcours et de sa contribution majeure. Robert Dautray est membre de l'Académie des sciences.
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This book recounts the moving life story of the French scientist Robert Dautray, the son of Russian Jewish I'migrants. Although he had to work as a farmhand in occupied France, he went on to graduate after the war from Ecole Polytechnique, where he was first in his class, and from Ecole des Mines.Robert Dautray played a major role in French history during the second half of the twentieth century. He was the only major French scientist to respond to General de Gaulle's appeal to provide France with nuclear arms that would raise the country to the rank of a major world power. Why was this choice made, and what were its positive and negative consequences These are the questions that are answered here.Dautray came from a family of Russian Jews on his father's side. His mother's family had worked in the fur trade in the Ukraine between the wars. During World War II, Dautray and his mother had to change their names and go into hiding in the southern French countryside. His father died in a death camp, as did most of Dautray's family on both sides.Dautray's love for France, where he had found refuge, and his distress at Jewish resignation made him feel that he had to labour to help his country acquire the means to defend its population. The author does not hide the dangers of civilian and military uses of nuclear energy he covers such issues as nuclear waste and the dangers of proliferation. But he also describes his dedication throughout his scientific career and particularly in his capacity as heard of the Atomic Energy Commission to fieding solutions to these dangers.In this book a great man who spent much of his life in the shadows of power gives us a fascinating first-hand account of how France acquired the means to preserve its rank. He tells us here of the hopes that nuclear energy gave rise to as well as of the risks inherent to it. Robert Dautray, a physicist, is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and of the Academy of Technology. He is the father of the French thermonuclear bomb and the author of, most notably, Quelles énergies pour demain , published by Editions Odile Jacob. N° de réf. du vendeur 9782738118370
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