Justin Winokur is a third year PhD student in History at the University of Virginia, where he researches America’s Cold War warfare state under Professor William Hitchcock. Justin is a 2022-23 Fellow at UVA’s National Security Policy Center, the 2022-23 Fellow for UVA’s Governing America in a Global Era, and an Associate of the Applied History Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. From 2018-2020, Justin was a Research Assistant to Professor Graham Allison at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, where he was also the Center’s Applied History Project Coordinator. He holds an MA in History from the University of Virginia and a BA in International Relations (summa cum laude) from Connecticut College.