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Nick Blackbourn

Research Content Officer, Edinburgh Napier University

Research Content Officer, Edinburgh Napier University I joined Edinburgh Napier University as a Research Content Officer in August 2016. I graduated from the University of Manchester with a BA History and Economics in 2007 and completed a Master’s Degree in Modern History at the University of St Andrews in 2010. My doctoral project, also undertaken at St Andrews, examined the Committee on the Present Danger, a pressure group that opposed nuclear arms control and instead argued for increased military spending. Its activities in the late 1970s paved the way for the Reagan Administration’s military build-up. Research projects currently underway include: the effects of threat estimation on the cold war; the US military build-up of the 1980s; preparations for nuclear conflict in the 1970s and 1980s. I currently maintain a cold war history blog at stilloutinthecold.net and have contributed to various outlets including the BBC World Service and Gizmodo.