I am interested in questions that lie at the intersection of technology and international security during the Cold War. My work draws from archival collections in the United States, Western Europe, and the former Soviet Union. My specific research topics include: global information networks, space security, intelligence, alliances, and arms control.

My first book, Weapons in Space: Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative is an international history of Ronald Reagan’s controversial missile defense effort: the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). I situate SDI within intensifying U.S. - Soviet military space competition in the final two decades of the Cold War that emerged as détente collapsed. Moreover, I detail SDI’s enduring consequences for arms control and its connections with resurgent anxieties about an arms race in space.

My new book project investigates the U.S. and British strategies for developing resilient global information networks during the Cold War. This work is both a political and technological history of the U.S. and British worldwide command and control systems that were designed to survive throughout a nuclear conflict.