Mark Eastwood secures AHRC International Placement

Mark Eastwood, a PhD student from American and Canadian Studies at Nottingham has secured a International Placement from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) at the Library of Congress, Washington DC.

Mark Eastwood, a doctoral candidate in the Department of American and Canadian Studies and associate of the Politics and Foreign Policy research cluster, has been awarded a three-month international placement by the AHRC at the Library of Congress to work on his research project 'Regulation and Resistance: Selling the Atom in Post-War America.' The project considers major nuclear events of the Cold War, including the Cuban Missile Crisis, the disasters at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, and Reagan's Strategic Defence Initiative, to evaluate the evolution of official post-war American pro-nuclear discourse and how it has been challenged by anti-nuclear activists.