Our center

The Centre interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux stratégiques (CIENS) is a research and teaching platform devoted to nuclear defense and strategic issues in the broadest sense (including cyber issues, outer space, artificial intelligence and information manipulation, arms control and disarmament, strategic thinking, etc.). Our core ambition is to study inter-state relations of force and the various […]

Social Sciences and Military Nuclear Power – Study Day

Study day for young researchers from the Centre interdisciplinaire d’étude sur le nucléaire et la stratégie (CIENS) – April 20, 2023 – Campus Jourdan – Salle Madeleine Réberioux Organized by the ENS’s Centre interdisciplinaire sur le nucléaire et la stratégie (CIENS) (Interdisciplinary Center for Nuclear and Strategic Studies), and aimed primarily at young researchers, this […]

History of Nuclear Deterrence

This course, run by Fréderic Gloriant and Dominique Mongin, takes place in the first semester on Tuesday afternoons from 4pm to 6pm at 45 rue d’Ulm. The aim is to put the history of nuclear deterrence in the context of international relations, from its origins to the present day. This will involve dating and defining […]

Dominique Mongin

Career Dominique Mongin is a historian with a doctorate in history from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. His thesis, defended in 1991 under the supervision of Professor Maurice Vaïsse, was entitled ‘La genèse de l’armement nucléaire français (1945-1958)’ (The genesis of French nuclear armament (1945-1958)); it was the first French doctoral thesis in history […]

Nicolas Roche

Career Dominique Mongin holds a doctorate in history from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. His thesis, defended in 1991 under the supervision of Professor Maurice Vaïsse, was on: “The genesis of French nuclear weapons (1945/58)”. He has worked in the Prime Minister’s department responsible for defence and security issues (General Secretariat for Defence and […]