The Atolls of the Atom
CThis work is somewhat the complement to the comic book "In the Name of the Bomb." It is a historical document. Its reader allows one to measure the importance of the efforts made in France to "be in the company of the big ones."
Seeing the hydrogen bomb explode, de Gaulle had exclaimed, "It's beautiful!"
Iam in contact with people who were stationed there and who testify to the destruction of a social architecture, and the exportation of a totally inadequate way of life.
You will find in this book photos of the "tsunami shelters" erected to protect the personnel in case of a limestone plate slipping from the atoll, shaken by a nuclear explosion.
For the success of our weapons......