Christopher J. Bright is an independent scholar of twentieth century American diplomatic and political history and the author of
Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era: Nuclear Antiaircraft Arms and the Cold War, published in 2010 by Palgrave Macmillan in the Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology series.
An earlier version of the book was written as a dissertation at the
George Washington University and was supported with grants from the
Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, the
Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, the
U.S. Army Center of Military History, the
Cosmos Club Foundation, and others. Portions of it also appeared as "Out in the Open; Popular Representations of Some American Nuclear Weapons in the Early Cold War," in Rosemary B. Mariner and G. Kurt Piehler, eds.,
The Atomic Bomb in American Society: New Perspectives, published in 2009 by the University of Tennessee Press.
Christopher Bright holds a Ph.D. and M.Phil. from
George Washington, an M.A. (Foreign Affairs) from the
University of Virginia , and an A.B. (Government) from the
College of William and Mary.
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