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French nuclear politics. Not only does she point at the deep entanglement of “technopolitical regimes”—that is,“linked sets of people, engineering and industrial practices, technological artefacts, political programs, and institutional ideologies”—and national identity, but she also stresses that imaginations of nationhood need to be “articulated and rehearsed” on a regular basis (1998, 16).

While these concepts have done important work in understanding the building of national identities and how technologies can play a key role in this, and indeed have inspired some of the thinking in this chapter, they do not capture in a satisfactory manner the messy, long-term processes through which national technopolitical identities are created and maintained through the (non-) uptake of certain technological developments. The concept of “sociotechnical imaginaries,” as developed in this volume, seems better suited to this …