| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | 1 |
| 1 | A Technological Nation | 21 |
| State Engineering before World War II | |
| State Institutions after World War II | |
| What Is a Technocrat? | |
| The Future of France | |
| The Mentality of the Future | |
| The Plan | |
| 2 | Technopolitical Regimes | 55 |
| The Creation of the CEA | |
| The Emergence of a Nationalist Technopolitical Regime | |
| The G2 Reactor: Developing a Nationalist Technopolitical Regime | |
| EDF: The Emergence of a Nationalized Regime | |
| The EDF1 Reactor: Developing a Nationalized Technopolitical Regime | |
| 3 | Technopolitics in the Fifth Republic | 91 |
| Technology and Gaullism | |
| Technopolitics from the Fourth to the Fifth Republic: EDF2 and EDF3 | |
| Optimization and the Competitive Kilowatt-Hour | |
| Controlling Fuel and Pricing Plutonium | |
| Industrial Competitiveness, Exporting Reactors, and the Future of France | |
| 4 | Technological Unions | 131 |
| The Politics of Unionism | |
| Conceptualizing National Technological Progress | |
| Recruiting Technical Elites | |
| 5 | Regimes of Work | 163 |
| Marcoule | |
| Chinon | |
| 6 | Technological Spectacles | 201 |
| Salvation, Redemption, and Liberation | |
| Reconciling Modernity and Tradition | |
| Chateaux for the Twentieth Century | |
| The Critics: "Two Steps Away Is the Abyss" | |
| Counter-Spectacle: "When the Tale of Marcoule Is Told" | |
| 7 | Atomic Vintage | 241 |
| Representations of Public Opinion | |
| Peasants and Engineers: Bagnolais de Souche and Marcoulins | |
| Interlude: Reflections on Local Memory | |
| The Little Kuwait of the Indre-et-Loire | |
| 8 | Warring Systems | 271 |
| Preliminaries to the War: Public Relations and Technological Mishaps | |
| The War Starts in Earnest: The Horowitz-Cabanius Report | |
| PEON: Defining the Context for Technological Development | |
| Breeder Reactors: Flexibility and Consensus | |
| Unions Strike Back | |
| Boiteux Declares the End of the Gas-Graphite Program | |
| The CEA Strikes | |
| Economic Comparisons, Union-Style | |
| Back to Bagnols | |
| The Cleanup at Saint-Laurent: Healing the Technopolitical Wound | |
| The Battle Fizzles Out | |
| Conclusion | 325 |
| Notes | 341 |
| Bibliography | 413 |
| Index | 447 |
Format: Textbook Paperback, 472 pages
