ABSTRACT

This article examines the shift in French nuclear export policy during 1974–80 leading to renegotiation of bilateral contracts between India’s Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and France’s Commissariat à l’énergie atomique (CEA). This reassessment of French-Indian nuclear partnership by Giscard d’Estaing’s government initially resulted from its concerns that France might be implicated in India’s 1974 nuclear explosion. Neither country had signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the CEA and DAE were long-time technology partners, and both opposed multilateral safeguards. The French reassessment later received a major thrust from improved US-French bilateral relations, and French participation in the Nuclear Suppliers Group.

摘要

本文考察了 1974-80 年法国核出口政策的转变，导致印度原子能部 (DAE) 和法国原子能委员会 (CEA) 重新谈判双边合同。Giscard d'Estaing 政府对法印核伙伴关系的重新评估最初是因为它担心法国可能与印度 1974 年的核爆炸有牵连。两国都没有签署《核不扩散条约》，CEA 和 DAE 是长期技术合作伙伴，都反对多边保障措施。法国的重新评估后来得到了美法双边关系改善以及法国加入核供应国集团的主要推动力。