Medical and environmental approaches to military nuclear risk

Maison Française d’Oxford,
Organizers : (CNRS-CAK) & (Sciences Po Aix-Mesopolis) with the support of Mark Harrison (Oxford University)
7 MAI 2025
13h30 : OPENING REMARKS (Renaud Meltz & Benoît Pouget)
13h45 : PANEL 1
OBJECTIVISING KNOWLEDGE, SHARING KNOWLEDGE AND MANAGING UNCERTAINTY
Chair : Laure Humbert (Manchester University)
Quentin Comminsoli (SPX- SOSI CEP) quentincomensoli@gmail.com
Theoretical Knowledge and Uncertainties in Radioprotection: Shaping Norms Before the CEP (1940s–1960s)
Manatea Taiarui (Université de Polynésie Française) manateataiarui@gmail.com
The transnational dimension of knowledge production and the development of safety infrastructures at the CEP in the era of atmospheric testing (1962-1975)
Fiona Bowler (Oxford University) fi.bowler@history.ox.ac.uk
‘You saw, you heard, and you felt’: The Perception of Nuclear Risk during Britain’s Nuclear Weapons Testing Programme
15H15 : COFFEE BREAK
15H30 : PANEL 2
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES OF NUCLEAR TESTING IN THE PACIFIC AREA
Chair : Jeong Ran Kim
Benjamin Furst (Université de Haute-Alsace) benjamin.furst@uha.fr
“Le SMCB se devait d’être le Maître d’Oeuvre de ces études multidisciplinaires” : Radiological Control and Environnemental Studies of the French Nuclear Tests in the 1960s
Ryoo Kyoryul (National Korea Maritime and Ocean University) rkr31@kmou.ac.kr
South Korea’s Long-line Tuna Fishery and military nuclear tests in the Pacific Ocean
17H15 : KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Renaud Meltz (CNRS CAK) renaud.meltz@cnrs.fr
Risk governance at the Pacific Experimental Centre19h : DINNER
8 Mai
9H : PANEL 3 :
PREPARING FOR/ANTICIPATING NUCLEAR/ATOMIC RISKS :
CIVIL DEFENCE UNDER PRESSURE
Chair : Christopher Hill
Mark Harrison (Oxford University) mark.harrison@history.ox.ac.uk
Exercising Armageddon: Civil Defence Exercises in the UK, 1950s-1980s
Benoît Pouget (SPX-Mesopolhis) benoit.POUGET@univ-amu.fr
Civil defense and anticipation of nuclear and radiological threats in France (1950s-1960s)
Jeong Ran Kim (Oxford University)
Rethinking Civil Defence in a Nuclear Age: The United States and its Test-beds in Japan and Korea
11H : PANEL 4
LEGACY AND LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR TESTING ON HUMAN HEALTH
Chair : Fiona Bowler
Marie Brualla (Université Montpellier III)
Medical research and territorial health organisation in French Polynesia: French imperialism put to the test by health cooperation (1945 – 1970)
Florence Mury (MSHP -SOSI CEP) florence.mury@cnrs.fr
The memory of health risks among former Polynesian CEP workers: a critical rereading of life on the sites in the light of recent revelations
Christopher Hill (University of South Wales) christopher.hill@southwales.ac.uk
Bodies of Evidence: Nuclear Test Veterans and the Archive
12h30 : CONCLUDING REMARKS (Renaud Meltz & Benoît Pouget)
13H : LUNCH
