Pierre Gallois

Pierre Gallois   (pilot)
Born	1911-06-29 Turin, Italy
Died	2010-08-24 (Age 99) Paris, France
Nationality	France
Children	• François Gallois • Richard Gallois • Phillip Gallois
Spouse	Françoise Marie Gallois
Member of	Le Cercle
"Father of the French atom bomb", Bilderberg, Le Cercle

Pierre Gallois was a French air force brigadier general and "the father of the French atom bomb".

Activities

Gallois was instrumental in the constitution of the French nuclear arsenal. This earned him the nickname of "father of the French atom bomb". However, Bruno Tertrais, a research fellow at the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique, argued in "Destruction Assurée : The Origins and Development of French Nuclear Strategy, 1945-1981," an essay in Henry Sokolski, ed., Getting Mad: Nuclear mutual assured destruction, its origins and practice, that other contemporaries of Gallois in the community of French defense intellectuals deserve a greater share of the responsibility. After the war, Gallois was detached to civil aviation and took part in conferences of the International Civil Aviation Organization.

Le Cercle

Brian Crozier wrote in his autobiography that he "interpreted for him [Pierre Galois] at Pinay Cercle meetings. Jean Violet gave him a 'genius' rating."

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1957 October	4 October 1957	6 October 1957	Italy Fiuggi	The 6th Bilderberg meeting, the latest ever in the year and the first one in Italy.
Bilderberg/1963	29 March 1963	31 March 1963	France Cannes Hotel Martinez	The 12th Bilderberg meeting and the second one in France.
Bilderberg/1964	20 March 1964	22 March 1964	US Virginia Williamsburg	A year after this meeting, the post of GATT/Director-General was set up, and given Eric Wyndham White, who attended the '64 meeting. Several subsequent holders have been Bilderberg insiders, only 2 are not known to have attended the group.

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