Austin Cooper

Austin R. Cooper is an Assistant Professor of History at Purdue University and Senior Research Associate at SciencesPo CERI. He is finishing a book about France’s emergence as a nuclear weapon state during the 1960s and its first nuclear testing program in the Algerian Sahara at that time. He has published related work in the Nonproliferation Review and Cold War History. He completed fellowships in the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He earned a PhD in History and Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania.